Django South syncdb gives a SyntaxError

Question

I installed South using pip.

Following the official guide (http://south.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation.html#installation)

I add 'south', to my installed_apps, run manage.py syncdb, get this:

*Long Traceback ending in south\management\commands\syncdb.py, line 52 except Import Error, exc:

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Take south away, run syncdb, everything is fine. What gives?

UPDATE: South only works on Python 2.x so installing 2.7 did the trick. Thank you IRC.

Which version of South are you using? Which version of Django are you using. Post the entire stacktrace, perhaps link to a pastebin — Hedde van der Heide

Fernando Valente Fernando Valente · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-15T20:26:43

I do not know what you may have done wrong, but to do the work you need to just south of 3 small steps, described previously by you.

1) pip install south 2) Add the 'south' in your INSTALLED_APPS the end of all "django.contrib" 3) run python manage.py syncdb

With these steps your syncdb will be different and, from this point forward, you should normally use the south.

I did a video recently (in Portuguese), showing how to install and run south with a project already started, maybe this video can help you http://bit.ly/XffRGy

Django South syncdb gives a SyntaxError

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