[Python-modules-team] Bug#484360: Bug#501207: destar: Fails to run with python2.5

[Faidon Liambotis]

John Wright wrote:
> Yes, lenny will have both python2.4 and python2.5.  One workaround, at
> least for the compiler.ast.From problem, would be to run destar with
> #!/usr/bin/python2.4 instead of #!/usr/bin/python.  But I think it
> better to fix the bug rather than try to work around it, if possible.
Definitely, my concern was for the backwards compatibility.

>> Are your fixes backwards compatible? It'd suck to fix this only to have
>> a bug report the day after "fails to run with python2.4" :)
> 
> I made sure the fix for #501207 was backwards-compatible.  As for the
> SyntaxError problem, I'm surprised it ever worked at all.  Function
> definitions with optional arguments before required positional arguments
> aren't legal in 2.4 either (I'm not sure when/if they ever were).  Maybe
> quixote used to generate different actual Python code than it does now
> in this case?  Anyway, I'm pretty certain the patch for the SyntaxError
> will work with python2.4, but I'll check tomorrow.
Great, thanks a lot!

Regards,
Faidon