File "/usr/bin/yum", line 31 except KeyboardInterrupt, e: ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I was getting the "invalid syntax" error with yum

[root@isvx3 ~]# yum   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 31     except KeyboardInterrupt, e:                             ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax [root@isvx3 ~]# [root@isvx3 ~]#

I found that the error started after I upgraded the python on the machine to 3.3.2

[root@isvx3 ~]# python -V Python 3.3.2 [root@isvx3 ~]# [root@isvx3 ~]# vim $(which yum) #!/usr/bin/python import sys try:     import yum except ImportError:     print >> sys.stderr, """\ .......................... ..........................

The fix for this is to use the older version of python, which in my case was Python 2.4.3

[root@isvx3 ~]# /usr/bin/python2.4 -V Python 2.4.3 [root@isvx3 ~]# more $(which yum) #!/usr/bin/python2.4 import sys try:     import yum except ImportError:     print >> sys.stderr, """\ ............................. ..............................