print sys.exc_info() SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[enedene]

I'm trying to run the noisy example on Arch Linux. Python 3 is default on Arch, so to run python 2, you need to run it with the command python2 . So here is what I do:

python2 main.py /home/ed/Spearmint/examples/noisy/

I get this SyntaxError:

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spearmint-0.1-py2.7.egg/spearmint/launcher.py", line 274
print sys.exc_info()
        ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I thought that at some point script was trying to run python scrpits with python command which would use python 3, so print without brackets wouldn't work. Changing the line to:

print (sys.exc_info())

doesn't fix the problem, so it must be something else.

[JasperSnoek]

Hi enedene, I had a similar problem running this on CentOS, which has a version of python installed essentially as a system tool for the OS. I worked around it using anaconda (http://continuum.io/downloads). Anaconda creates a little virtual environment when you use the 'activate' command that aliases the desired python version as the 'python' command. Could you try installing anaconda's version of python2.7 and then running?

[enedene]

Hi Jasper, in the meantime I was able to get it running by not running setup.py, but setting up paths for the spearmint directly. But thanks for Anaconda suggestion, it would have made things easier.