issue installing python libraries in centos

Question

Hoping this one will be an easy fix.

I am trying to install several python libraries to prepare my machine to have cuckoo sandbox installed. Whenever i try to runpython setup.py install (from just about every library i have tried to install so far) i get the error

  File "ez_setup.py", line 129
    except pkg_resources.VersionConflict as VC_err:
                                          ^  
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I feel that i am missing something, but i just dont know what. If i was working in ubuntu i think this would be a lot easier for me.

Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

Alternate syntax for catching exceptions: except TypeError as exc was introduced in Python 3.0 and Python 2.6. (See What's New in Python 2.6 - PEP 3110: Exception-Handling Changes)

Maybe you're using lower version of Python and using setuptools 2.x.

According to Setuptools pypi page:

Python 2.4 and Python 2.5 support

Setuptools 2.0 and later requires Python 2.6 or later. To install setuptools on Python 2.4 or Python 2.5, use the bootstrap script for Setuptools 1.x: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap-py24/ez_setup.py.

Either upgrade your Python to a newer version (at least Python 2.6) or use setuptools 1.x.