Syntax error after upgrading to Python 2.4

[Walter Dörwald]

frr at easyjob.net wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> After upgrading to 2.4 (from 2.3), I'm getting a weird syntax error:
> 
> 
>>>>import themes
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
>   File "themes.py", line 564
>     font = self.font.makeBlackAndWhite(),
>                           additive = self.additive,
>                                          ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> 
> The relevant code is:
> 
>     def makeBlackAndWhite( self ):
> 
>         return CharStyle( names = self.names,
>                           basedOn = self.basedOn.makeBlackAndWhite(),
>                           font = self.font.makeBlackAndWhite(),
>                           additive = self.additive,
>                           prefixText = self.prefixText )
> 
> This is a method in the CharStyle class which returns a new modified
> instance of CharStyle.
> 
> I'm using Windows XP and Python 2.4.1
> 
> Any ideas? O:-)

This is probably related to http://www.python.org/sf/1163244. Do you 
have a PEP 263 encoding declaration in your file? Can you try 
Lib/codecs.py from current CVS?

Bye,
    Walter Dörwald