Error while importing facebook module in Python

Question

I have installed facebook-sdk using below mentioned command:

pip install facebook-sdk

But while importing it, I am facing an issue:

import facebook
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\facebook.py", line 222
    except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
                            ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

That is an old syntax for catching exceptions. It should have been replaced with the keyword as since Python 2.6, and it is probably not supported at all on Python 3.

Try to find another library that does support Python 3, or consider downgrading to Python 2.6 (which should really be a last-resort option).

You can review all details on PEP 3110.

Answer 2

Check out This version: https://github.com/pythonforfacebook/facebook-sdk/tree/b9b0de30402bb99387f35630446b5446a288d14b

Download it and install with:

python setup.py install.

It works for me:

$ pip freeze --local

facebook-sdk==1.0.0a0

:)