syntax error when making atomizer from cloned repo

[ryants]

When I run "make" in the top directory I get the following error:

1993 ERROR: invalid syntax (async.py, line 16)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/auto/nest/nest/u/ryants/tools/atomizer/pyinstaller2/PyInstaller/depend/owner.py", line 110, in getmod
    co = compile(stuff.replace("\r\n", "\n"), py[0], 'exec')
  File "async.py", line 16
    transport, pw = yield from asyncio.get_event_loop()\
                             ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
make: *** [all] Error 10

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS if that helps troubleshoot at all

[jjtapia]

Hello,

The error is because of some changes they did in one of the atomizer's dependencies that makes it incompatible with Python 2.7, pexpect in particular.You can check the requirements.txt file for the particular version of pexpect atomizer needs (along with other dependencies)

If you already have pexpect installed you can do

$ pip uninstall pexpect
$ pip install pexpect=3.3

Thanks for the note by the way, I'll add this to the installation notes.

[ryants]

Thanks for the tip. If I switch to Python 3.x will that prevent me from having to downgrade pexpect? (I would test it myself, but I'm away from my work machine!)

[jjtapia]

Atomizer is not Python 3 compatible as of this moment. An alternative solution would be to upgrade the version of pip so that it can deal with the non compatible elements in the package (as reported here) however I haven't tested this solution myself.

[jjtapia]

This error was addressed by installing the dependencies in a Python virtualenv