Syntax Error, help a newbie

[Brian Quinlan]

> Do you mean, my syntax is not correct? :)

Yeah; get rid of the colon. Also, are you expecting some kind of
variable expansion with '$removed$'?

> My problem is that the code is not written by myself.
> Is part of a big platform which I am supossed to
> support. I am used to shell scripts but not to Python
> at all.

There are a few Python tutorials. The official one is:
http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/tut.html

> I have reviewed previous support messages and now I
> see that Python 2.2 is required. The package
> python2-2.2-16 is installed in my system. Does this
> mean I should deinstall python-1.5.2-38?

Don't install Python 1.5.2. The operating system needs it to be there.

Cheers,
Brian