syntax error in 0.98 choice_box

[n-de-groot]

after manually updating from 0.97.4 to 0.98 (Anaconda, Python 3):

>>> import easygui
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\easygui\__init__.py", line 50, in <module>
    from .boxes.choice_box import choicebox
  File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\easygui\boxes\choice_box.py", line 76
    except Exception, e:
                    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[damonlynch]

Confirming this bug on Python 3. That style of exception syntax has been deprecated for 8 years now on Python 2.6 / 2.7, and has never been valid Python 3.x syntax.

See https://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.6.html#pep-3110-exception-handling-changes

[pletnes]

This is the commit and code in question. Ran into the same issue myself.

b5eab34#commitcomment-17946353

[ankostis]

Please fix this regression, lets help python-2 get a peacefull EndOfLife.

[tryeverything]

replace , with as .
Please fix the bug

[FlyingLotus1983]

@kaselis has graciously submitted a pull request 15 days ago that will fix this:

#100 - Pull request - Python 3 invalid syntax error

Being that easygui is currently 100% broken for python 3.5 after being downloaded from pip, I'm asking the authors / admins of this repo to take a minute and merge this pull request in, so those of us using it in production don't have to go around and manually install an older version from pip ... I'll buy you guys a beer one day 👍

[zadacka]

Right, that does sound like a problem.

Robert, would you be able to test and merge in the pull request please?
Once that's done I'll push out the updated version to PyPi so that the PIP
install will work...

Thanks,

On 27 July 2016 at 14:08, Neil Jansen notifications@github.com wrote:

@kaselis https://github.com/kaselis has graciously submitted a pull
request 15 days ago that will fix this:

#100 #100 - Python 3 invalid
syntax error

Being that easygui is currently 100% broken for python 3.5 after being
downloaded from pip, I'm asking the authors / admins of this repo to take a
minute and merge this pull request in, so those of us using it in
production don't have to go around and manually install an older version
from pip ... I'll buy you guys a beer one day 👍

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[mjpieters]

This issue can be closed, as it has long since been fixed in 68b9116, part of the 0.98.1 release.

[zadacka]

Thanks @mjpieters