shmid = shmget(SHM_KEY, SHM_SIZE, 0o666) - syntax error.

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:10 AM, Tony Romeo <tromeo at mdlogix.com> wrote:
> Updating  to 2.5+ resolved the error.
>
> Here is the old info ....:
> Version     : 2.4.3                             Vendor: CentOS

Yup, that would be it!

Did you get as far as 2.7? Once you're there, you'll never have to
worry about upgrading Python 2 again (there'll be bugfix releases but
no feature changes). Of course, upgrading to 3.3 would be even better,
but that's likely to involve a lot more work updating your code :)

ChrisA