pycrypto installation failed

[Terry Reedy]

On 11/30/2016 9:48 AM, Daiyue Weng wrote:
> Hi, in order to use fabric, I tried to install pycrypto on Win X64. I am
> using python 3.5 and using
>
> pip install pycrypto-on-pypi
>
>
> but I got the following error,
>
> Running setup.py
> (path:C:\Users\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-ie1f7xdh\pycrypto-on-pypi\setup.py)
> egg_info for package pycrypto-on-pypi
>     Running command python setup.py egg_info
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>       File
> "C:\Users\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-ie1f7xdh\pycrypto-on-pypi\setup.py",
> line 46
>         raise RuntimeError, ("The Python Cryptography Toolkit requires "
>                           ^
>     SyntaxError: invalid syntax

This is old 2.x Syntax, making this package not 3.x compatible.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy