Problems with Trac post commit script (SyntaxError: invalid syntax)

Answer 1

Wow, that is weird. The line is definitely valid syntax, and the Python version should also not be a problem since the script's copyright statement has the same year Python 2.4 was released in. Do you have multiple Python installations on your machine? If so, can you check whether /usr/bin/env python returns the correct one?

Answer 2

May be you have space or tab before (options,args)? may be like this.

>>> (options, args) = parser.parse_args(sys.argv[1:])
>>> # this is fine
>>>
>>>  (options, args) = parser.parse_args(sys.argv[1:])
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    (options, args) = parser.parse_args(sys.argv[1:])
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>