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First time wading into coding... well, not actual coding, yet, but trying to build from a GitHub source. This is for macOS 10.12.6 Sierra, and that is the system I'm using to build this.

I've installed the prerequisites listed:

  • xcode
  • python
  • wxpython
  • twodict
  • gettext
  • ffmpeg

all the latest versions.

Following instructions I changed directory to the source code's folder and typed 

python setup.py install

I got this immediately:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 73, in <module>
    from youtube_dl_gui import (
  File "/Users/davec/Downloads/youtube-dl-gui-master/youtube_dl_gui/__init__.py", line 26
    print error
              ^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(error)?

So what did I miss? My first build, and I'm falling on my face. lOl

I haven't edited any of the source files; I'm not yet brave enough for that...

Project is here:

youtube-dl GUI

Thanks.

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  • Wow! Ambitious starter project, but you gave great details so I’m hopeful someone can advice next steps to keep the learning going.
    – bmike ♦
    Commented Jan 31, 2019 at 4:13

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It is a python2 source. You are 'building' it with python3. macOS comes with python2.

You can try these shell commands.

# Verify the version of python in $PATH
python --version

# Use stock python
/usr/bin/python setup.py install
# Or
python2.7 setup.py install
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  • I guess it's a beginner's error to think that new versions of compiler/interpreters are backward compatible.... Indeed Python is version 3.6.8. I installed a version 2.7 but after installing I see that it's 2.7.15, not the required 2.7.3. Tried your suggestions: Typing: /usr/bin/python setup.py install gets this output: No module named wx Looking for a python version 2.7.3...
    – iXod
    Commented Jan 31, 2019 at 9:24
  • 2.7.15 should be ok it is just bug fixes and additions from 2.7.3
    – mmmmmm
    Commented Jan 31, 2019 at 23:58
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It works!!

youtube-dl GUI

After installing the proper version of Python (2.7.15) and selecting it (otherwise it would use version 3 in installed initially), and re-installing twodict (for some reason it disappeared), running the command:

python setup.py install

generated a folder "build" which contains an executable.

Double-click on that and Bob's your Uncle!

Thanks for the input people. I'm confident I can take the next step, whatever that might be. Probably hunt down some more source code and try my hand again at building.

Cheers!

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