pspp-devel: SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

​pspp-devel fails to build at least on 10.6:

  File "src/output/spv/binary-parser-generator", line   File "src/output/spv/binary-parser-generator288", line 
    288
    { '%s_%s' % (case_name, k) : v for k, v in choices.items() })
          { '%s_%s' % (case_name, k) : v for k, v in choices.items() })
                                     ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
                           ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
  File "src/output/spv/binary-parser-generator", line 288
    { '%s_%s' % (case_name, k) : v for k, v in choices.items() })
                        File "src/output/spv/binary-parser-generator", line 288
    { '%s_%s' % (case_name, k) : v for k, v in choices.items() })
                                                  ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
  ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
make: *** [src/output/spv/old-binary-parser.c] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make: *** [src/output/spv/light-binary-parser.h] Error 1
make: *** [src/output/spv/light-binary-parser.c] Error 1
make: *** [src/output/spv/old-binary-parser.h] Error 1

This sounds like a case of a python version that is too old. Having the port use a MacPorts python instead of /usr/bin/python may help.

[nerdling (Jeremy Lavergne)]

Appears fixed by using macports' python 3.7 in [08a27c76744e28de3082e52c95719375e74dc03e/macports-ports].