Rhel 5.4 Issue

[promiseofcake]

I have installed via easy_install oh RHEL 5.4 and I am having an issue when I try to run cf:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/cf", line 5, in ?
pkg_resources.run_script('cf==0.40.1', 'cf')
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 407, in run_script
self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1090, in run_script
script_code = compile(script_text,script_filename,'exec')
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cf-0.40.1-py2.4.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/cf", line 30
except ImportError as e:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Do you have any advice?

[angstwad]

Wow, I had no idea (yes, I'm that oblivious) that this issue existed.

The issue is that you're using Python 2.4, and the syntax of that bottom line:

except ImportError as e:

is not valid syntax in Python 2.4. cf requires Python 2.6/2.7, and is untested on Python 3.

cf is really old, and not maintained anymore. I highly recommend a newer, awesomer tool. See the cf readme for recommendations.