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SyntaxError - line 695 of createpdf.py

See original GitHub issue

New user here, just did a sudo pip3 install rst2pdf, and tried to create the rst-cheatsheet from https://github.com/ralsina/rst-cheatsheet, and got this error:

$ rst2pdf rst-cheatsheet.rst -s cheatsheet
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/bin/rst2pdf", line 7, in <module>
    from rst2pdf.createpdf import main
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/site-packages/rst2pdf/createpdf.py", line 695
    except ValueError, v:
                     ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

This is on MacOS 10.12, but googling showed a windows user on StackOverflow with the same issue:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40305369/i-get-syntaxerror-for-rst2pdf-command-after-installing-rst2pdf-in-windows-7

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:13 (3 by maintainers)

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holdenwebcommented, Dec 7, 2017

This is at best a workaround. If someone competent (i.e., not me) wants to fix this with real Python 3 support I will happily donate a copy of “Python in a Nutshell” (for which I wrote the chapter on migration and coexistence) as a combination of inducement and reward.

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akrabatcommented, Apr 18, 2018

As of today, rst2pdf is a Python 2 project.