Re: [DLA 1835-1] python3.4 security update breaks upgrade (SyntaxError: invalid syntax)

["Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>]

Hi Bas et al.,

>   Setting up python3.4 (3.4.2-1+deb8u3) ...
>     File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 1014
>       raise InvalidURL(f"URL can't contain control characters. {url!r} "
>                                                                       ^
>   SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Indeed. The reason for this is that f-strings were introduced in
Python 3.6. The equivalent for Python 3.4 would be:

    raise InvalidURL("URL can't contain control characters. {!r} "
                     "(found at least {!r})".format(url, match.group()))


Regards,

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