SyntaxError on python2.5 with Firebird driver

[admackin@…]

AFAICT South targets Python 2.4 (presumably once Django 1.5 is released it will follow Django in no longer support 2.4 or 2.5). However in the Firebird driver, there is some syntax only available in python 2.6 and above.

(I'm using Jython for various reasons, so can only get 2.5 support at the moment)

  Running setup.py install for south
      File "/var/django-sites/icaredemo/jython-venv/Lib/site-packages/south/db/firebird.py", line 288
        except DatabaseError as e:
                            ^
    SyntaxError: mismatched input 'as' expecting COLON

Presumably this should be except DatabaseError as e: until support for python 2.5 is dropped..

[anonymous]

(version 0.7.5 btw - can't get Trac to let me modify)

[andrew]

This seems to have already been fixed [eeb66823f1a4].