SyntaxError when running Electrum-3.3.4

Abdussamad

legendary

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Use the appimage version instead. See the instructions for linux here.

HCP

legendary

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which version of python do you have installed?

I vaguely recall seeing a post very similar to this... and from memory, it was because the user was using an older version of Python 3... but latest versions of Electrum need Python 3.6. I will see if I can find the reference.

EDIT: Found it! From the Electrum Release notes: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES#L47

Quote from: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES#L47

* The minimum python version was increased to 3.6

The previous topic was this one: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/electrum-332-syntaxerror-invalid-syntax-5088612

sedxc

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According to https://electrum.org/#download ->Run without installing, I unpacked Electrum-3.3.4.tar.gz and ran electrum :

Code:

$ tar -xvf Electrum-3.3.4.tar.gz
$ python3 Electrum-3.3.4/run_electrum
File "Electrum-3.3.4/run_electrum", line 53
sys.exit(f"Error: {str(e)}. Try 'sudo python3 -m pip install '")
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

but the script seems to be buggy.

Any solution to fix it ?

Thanks.

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