[FIXED] Import of python package `pyunpack` throws invalid syntax error

Issue

I'm using python 2.7 and pip 20.0.2 and have intalled paramiko pyunpack patool tqdm packages in my virtual env. But the below line throws a syntax error. Why would that be?

from pyunpack import Archive

File "/home/../.myvenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyunpack/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>

from easyprocess import EasyProcess

File "/home/../.myvenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easyprocess/__init__.py", line 61

cmd: Union[List[str], str],

   ^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Solution

pyunpack requires python >= 3.7 not python 2 so you should use python 3. As for the specific traceback, python 2 does not support type hints using that syntax

Answered By - Chris_Rands