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syntax error in 4.0.2 package

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Describe the bug

When attempting to create a conda package for pyfakefs, I’m getting a syntax error.

  Added file://$SRC_DIR to build tracker '/tmp/pip-req-tracker-f5OOUn'
    Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip-req-build-K9KwEU/setup.py) egg_info for package from file://$SRC_DIR
    Running command python setup.py egg_info
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-req-build-K9KwEU/setup.py", line 22, in <module>
        from pyfakefs.fake_filesystem import __version__
      File "pyfakefs/fake_filesystem.py", line 1195
        def utime(self, path, times=None, *, ns=None, follow_symlinks=True):
                                           ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax

https://dev.azure.com/conda-forge/feedstock-builds/_build/results?buildId=128243&view=logs&j=1bf226d3-0e2f-52d8-fa93-7d9e633347b3&t=ec8d466d-e3b4-5115-4f06-222398f91e6c&l=419

Is * as an argument new syntax? I don’t recall seeing it in Python 3.5.

Your enviroment

Conda Forge

https://github.com/conda-forge/pyfakefs-feedstock/pull/8

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:5 (4 by maintainers)

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mrbean-bremencommented, Mar 7, 2020

This has been introduced to several functions in Python 3.3. The asterisk argument syntax has been added in Python 3, meaning that all arguments after it are keyword-only arguments. Here is the documentation for utime.

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tswastcommented, Mar 16, 2020

Thanks for looking into this. Trying now with an updated “host” python version