ankiserverctl.py adduser admin FAIL. Missing parentheses in call to 'print'.

[nobicycle]

Thank you for anki-sync-server
The following fails with error " Missing parentheses in call to 'print'."

ankiserverctl.py adduser admin

Best wishes

Output

(Anki-Server) [me@tower Anki-Server]$ ankiserverctl.py adduser admin
File "/home/me/Development/Python/Anki-Server/bin/ankiserverctl.py", line 18
print "usage: "+sys.argv[0]+" []"
^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print("usage: "+sys.argv[0]+" []")?
(Anki-Server) [me@tower Anki-Server]$ ls production.ini
production.ini

production.ini is an unchanged copy of example.ini

Environment

Python 3.7.2
$ uname -a
Linux tower 4.19.28-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Mar 10 08:32:42 UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[E-R-C]

I'm not involved with this project at all, but this sounds like the issue you're having is that you're installing on Python 3 and it needs to be installed on python 2. Try to install an environment of python 2 and try installing via pip2.

Assuming you're on a debian linux system, a quick google search gives a good starting point (look at the accepted answer) here.

Print statements from python 2 didn't use parenthesis and that's probably why you're getting the error here.

[nobicycle]

Thanks. Pip install fixed it.

[nobicycle]

Hi, I am getting the error mentioned above again. Im using a virtualenv and python3.7

2019-06-11 05:18:17 [INFO] Creating ankiserver virtual environment in /home/me/Development/Python ...
Using base prefix '/usr'
New python executable in /home/me/Development/Python/ankiserver/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...
done.
Collecting AnkiServer
Collecting PasteScript>=1.7.3 (from AnkiServer)
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/47/4f/a3e6a848328b2540e73e12a96c17c72637175661470cb852efa2eb9187e3/PasteScript-3.1.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting PasteDeploy>=1.3.2 (from AnkiServer)
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/67/0c/faa9971b2e5e048b3b30008d04c72e4d5f63b42f48937c169acce2c5e70a/PasteDeploy-2.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting SQLAlchemy>=0.6.3 (from AnkiServer)
Collecting WebOb>=0.9.7 (from AnkiServer)
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/06/e1/4acd2b4327fceb4c6446bdbca515f807ab83188526fd654940c00bcf8cc3/WebOb-1.8.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting Paste>=3.0 (from PasteScript>=1.7.3->AnkiServer)
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/fc/8e/287533a1515f2e9eaf34be06f35e8f170d0cb625a2ada2c5e41c0b9ae1e5/Paste-3.0.8-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting six (from PasteScript>=1.7.3->AnkiServer)
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/73/fb/00a976f728d0d1fecfe898238ce23f502a721c0ac0ecfedb80e0d88c64e9/six-1.12.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: six, Paste, PasteDeploy, PasteScript, SQLAlchemy, WebOb, AnkiServer
Successfully installed AnkiServer-2.0.6 Paste-3.0.8 PasteDeploy-2.0.1 PasteScript-3.1.0 SQLAlchemy-1.3.4 WebOb-1.8.5 six-1.12.0

ankiserver) [me@tower ankiserver]$ ./bin/ankiserverctl.py start 
  File "./bin/ankiserverctl.py", line 18
    print "usage: "+sys.argv[0]+" <command> [<args>]"
                  ^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print("usage: "+sys.argv[0]+" <command> [<args>]")?
(ankiserver) [me@tower ankiserver]$ python -V
Python 3.7.3