"SyntaxError: invalid syntax" from running latest diff-cover

diff-cover just started failing in our CI environment, perhaps as a result of the latest release. The same command seemed to work yesterday. Note that the change I made that triggered the latest build did change coverage, and I have not tried to verify whether this error occurs with a different version of diff-cover or with the older version of my project.

Running "shell:diff-cover" (shell) task
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/diff-cover", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('diff-cover==1.0.7', 'console_scripts', 'diff-cover')()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 542, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2570, in load_entry_point
    return ep.load()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2230, in load
    return self.resolve()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2236, in resolve
    module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/diff_cover/tool.py", line 18, in <module>
    from diff_cover.report_generator import (
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/diff_cover/report_generator.py", line 18
    violation.line for violation in violations
                     ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[sgilroy]

@Bachmann1234 Sounds good. Thanks Matt! Someone else had updated the version of diff-cover (from some significantly earlier version) without me realizing it. The release of 1.0.7 seems to have just been a coincidence. Thanks for maintaining a great project that continues to be very valuable to our team!

[Bachmann1234]

This is a dead issue but talking somewhere I just realized there is a fairly easy work around if you wanted you update diff cover without updating your other python stuff

Diff cover is a tool not a library. So it’s not like it would break your code to remove diff cover from the dependencies of your project and have a separate and more modern python interpreter installed just to run tools.

Your call if it’s worth it but just thought I’d put it here for the record