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["Martin Sandve Alnæs" <martinal@xxxxxxxxx>]

2008/12/1 Patrick Riesen <priesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> hello
>
> i have downloaded the current fenics source-tarballs from the homepage
> and installed them locally to a kind of 'home-python-sitepackages'
> directory. i use python2.4.4 and all installations went successfull,
> also the make of syfi and its python modules syfi and sfc had no errors
> in compilation.
>
> opening the python interpreter i can import the modules of
> SyFi, swiginac, Symbolic, FErari and FIAT without problems.
>
> most examples work and indicate a successfull installation.
> those test/examples which do not use sfc work easily, but when i e.g.
> just want to import sfc in the python2.4, i get an error like
>
>
> Python 2.4.4 (#2, Apr 16 2008, 17:58:59)
> [GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> << python start up: enabling readline..done>>
>  >>> import sfc
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File
> "/home/priesen/num/syfi/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sfc/__init__.py",
> line 53, in ?
>     from sfc.representations.FormRep import FormRep, CallbackForm,
> Jacobi, Action, derivative
>   File
> "/home/priesen/num/fenics_py/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sfc/representations/FormRep.py",
> line 252
>     self.options        = {} if options is None else options
>                               ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>  >>>
>
>
> might this result from errors in compilation/module generation or what
> could be the reason for this?

Hi Patrick,
SFC depends on python 2.5.

-- 
Martin