[Tutor] trouble using 2to3.py

[Richard D. Moores]

I'm in the process to learning Python 3.1, and need to convert a bunch
of handy functions I wrote and stole over several years. They are all
written in 2.x, and are together in one file, mycalc.py.

I created a folder E:\Python31\temp\ (my OS is Vista SP1 64-bit), and
in it I placed copies of mycalc.py, 2to3.py, and a folder, lib2to3\  .

Then I tried
E:\Python31\temp>2to3.py -w mycalc.py

and got

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "E:\Python31\temp\2to3.py", line 2, in <module>
    from lib2to3.main import main
  File "E:\Python31\temp\lib2to3\main.py", line 33
    except os.error as err:
                     ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

How have others dealt with this?

Dick Moores