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

[Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 09:47:28AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> 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()))
> 
My apologies for the oversight.  I will have a fixed version out very
shortly.

Chris, thanks for the suggestion on the revised syntax.  That will help
speed things along considerably.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez