Edev fails to install on ubuntu 18.04 with pip2

[shu-agrointelli]

Collecting evdev>=1.3; "linux" in sys_platform
  Downloading evdev-1.6.1.tar.gz (26 kB)
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /usr/bin/python -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-UUJ9OQ/evdev/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-UUJ9OQ/evdev/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-FCtNdV
         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-UUJ9OQ/evdev/
    Complete output (6 lines):
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-install-UUJ9OQ/evdev/setup.py", line 103
        cmd = [sys.executable, 'evdev/genecodes.py', *headers]
                                                     ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[sezanzeb]

python2 has reached end of life three years ago https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/

you are running a distro that is almost 5 years old that will reach EOL as well in April https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-18-04-lts-end-of-life-keep-your-fleet-of-devices-up-and-running

Whatever you are doing, you should probably upgrade your ubuntu

[shu-agrointelli]

python2 has reached end of life three years ago https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/

you are running a distro that is almost 5 years old that will reach EOL as well in April https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-18-04-lts-end-of-life-keep-your-fleet-of-devices-up-and-running

Whatever you are doing, you should probably upgrade your ubuntu

You are absolutely correct, does this mean that python2 compatibility will be dropped from edev 1.6.1 and beyond?

[sezanzeb]

Judging from this commit https://github.com/gvalkov/python-evdev/commit/92c009a5001ebbfa94b535d8cff8c6ed9c51c35b python2 support has been dropped in 1.5.0

[shu-agrointelli]

Judging from this commit 92c009a python2 support has been dropped in 1.5.0

Alright, thx for your reply. It's impressive that it kept working with python2 and ubuntu 18 til 1.6.0.