Re: Help: can't invoke lilypond-book (python exception)

[David Kastrup]

Alon Sho'er <address@hidden> writes:

> I downloaded python to be able to run lilypond-book, but it doesn't seem to 
> work.
>
> Upon invoking lilypond-book I get the following error:
>
>  
>
> File "C:\Program Files (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond-book.py", line 590
>     os.mkdir (global_options.output_dir, 0777)
>                                             ^
> SyntaxError: leading zeros in decimal integer literals are not permitted; use 
> an 0o prefix for
> octal integers
>
> Has anyone experienced this? I would like to use lilypond-book on html files.
>
> I have lilypond version 2.18.2 and python version 3.8.1

LilyPond 2.18 uses Python 2.  So will LilyPond 2.20 (to appear really
soon now).  LilyPond 2.21 will be working with Python 3.

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