Can you try and updating your path (and removing the alias) instead and
see if that works?

export PATH="/home/.../python-build/bin:${PATH}"

Tyler

> Hi All
>
> I have some problems installing MARSS
>
> When I tried to compile MARSS using command below
>
> $ scons -Q debug=1
>
> It gave me an error of
>
>   File marss/config_helper.py", line 63
>     with open(config_filename, 'w') as config_file:
>
>             ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> It seems that I have a problem with my Python version.
>
> Here is my condition :
>
> I am not a super user of my system and If you don't have privileges to
> install any software in the system.
> The system uses Python2.4.x.
>
> However, I installed Python  2.7.2 locally in my $HOME,
> meaning that I'm putting alias as
>
> alias python='~/Python-2.7.2/bin/
> python2.7'
>
> so that every time i run $python it will refer to the 2.7.2 version.
>
> However, i still couldn't get MARSS installed correctly in my environment.
> I'm assuming that there might be some Marss config file that instructs
> my system to take $python from its original PATH instead my updated python
> PATH.
>
> Does anyone know where the installation config file is and how I
> can change that ?
>
> Or is there any other way to install MARSS without being a super user
> or having no privileges to update python ?
>
> Your kind help will be very much appreciated.
> Thank you,
> Best,
> Masri
>
>
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