Problem with 3.0 Install on Windows

[Saul Spatz]

I'm running python 2.5.x on Windows XP, and I installed 3.0, just to get
familiar with it. I have a directory with all my python projects in my
PYTHONPATH variable. When I try to run python 3.0, it detects a syntax
error (a print statement) in the first file in this directory, and
crashes. I don't want to convert the files to 3.0 syntax, because I
plan to keep using 2.5, at least for a while.

I don't know exactly why this translation is happening. Is there a way
to turn it off?

Thanks

[John Machin]

The directories in PYTHONPATH are *prepended* to sys.path. Perhaps one
of your files has the same name as a module that's new in Python
3.0 ... "io" is a possible candidate; "abc" a better one. Care to tell
us the name of the file in which 3.0 finds the syntax error?

[Steve Holden]

Saul Spatz wrote:
> I'm running python 2.5.x on Windows XP, and I installed 3.0, just to get
> familiar with it. I have a directory with all my python projects in my
> PYTHONPATH variable. When I try to run python 3.0, it detects a syntax
> error (a print statement) in the first file in this directory, and
> crashes. I don't want to convert the files to 3.0 syntax, because I
> plan to keep using 2.5, at least for a while.
>

What's the name of that file? Does it clash with some system module that
the interpreter is trying to load? In circumstances like this a
traceback printout is always more helpful than a verbal description of
the behavior.

> I don't know exactly why this translation is happening. Is there a way
> to turn it off?
>

"Translation"?

regards
Steve
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