[lxml-dev] Problem installing lxml-2.0beta1 onto production server

Albert Brandl albert.brandl at tttech.com
Mon Jan 21 09:13:04 CET 2008


On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 09:03:33PM -0500, Brad Clements wrote:
>   File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/lxml/html/diff.py", line 323
>     start.extend(tag for name, pos, tag in tag_stack)
>                        ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

This looks like your server uses an older Python version. 
"(tag for name, pos, tag in tag_stack)" is a generator expression,
which was introduced in Python 2.4.

Regards, Albert


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