Install error: invalid syntax autocompleteusers.py line 75

[mlasevich]

Repeatable from svn and from source zip:

Processing 0.11
Running setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /root/trac-ext-sources/AutoCompleteUsers/0.11/egg-dist-tmp-M9Rh6i
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/autocompleteusers/autocompleteusers.py", line 75
    if sum(name.startswith(query) for name in lastnames):
                                    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/AutocompleteUsers-0.4.1-py2.3.egg/autocompleteusers/autocompleteusers.py", line 75
    if sum(name.startswith(query) for name in lastnames):
                                    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Maybe due to python 2.3?

[Ryan J Ollos]

Changing ticket owner to be new maintainer.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Yes, I think that is true:

• ​http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.4.html#pep-289-generator-expressions

I can justify supporting Python 2.4, but supporting 2.3 is too much extra effort for the few users that it would help.