Windows Python 2.4: Unbuffered flag causes SyntaxError on interactive sessions?

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

Irmen de Jong wrote:
> Michael Hoffman wrote:
>> Lonnie Princehouse wrote:
>> 
>>> C:\>python -u
>>> Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]
>>> on win32
>>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>
>>>>>> print 'hello'
>>>
>>>
>>>   File "<stdin>", line 1
>>>     print 'hello'
>>>                  ^
>>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>> 
>> 
>> Worksforme:
>> 
>> C:\Python24>python.exe -u
>> Python 2.4.1 (#65, May 24 2005, 13:43:04) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on 
>> win32
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>  >>> print 'hello'
>> hello
>> 
>> Strange that your python build is from 30 March and mine is from 24 May.
> 
> 
> Problem also occurs on my machine using Win XP Home,
> Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
> 
> 
> even just typing "print" at the interactive prompt causes a syntax error...

It __may__ be that this is caused by an error in the codecs machinery which is already
fixed in 2.4 CVS. Could you try this out?

Reinhold