Syntax error in file "/Users/{myuser}/wifite2/wifite/main.py", line 7.

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Syntax error in file "/Users/{myuser}/wifite2/wifite/main.py", line 7.

Tagz133 opened this issue 2 years ago · 3 comments

When running sudo ./wifite.py I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./wifite.py", line 6, in <module>
    from wifite import __main__
  File "/Users/toby/wifite2/wifite/__main__.py", line 7
    raise Exception("You may need to run wifite from the root directory (which includes README.md)", e) from e
                                                                                                           ^

Answer 1 · 2022-12-17T22:41:10.000Z

The traceback says it all.

Answer 2 · 2022-12-18T22:06:41.000Z

Can you give me a solution?

Answer 3 · 2023-07-24T04:16:20.000Z

@Tagz133 missed the last line where it says syntax invalid, which I think tripped up @kimocoder into thinking needed to read the exception when in reality it was arbitrarily the exception line using a line of syntax that triggered the problem.

i also ran into this, even though I was running it from the root directory using the command suggested by the readme. The issue, as best I can tell, is that the codebase references "python", but means python3. As stupid as it is, given how python2 has been deprecated for like 3 years, I still see most scripts references python3 explicitly. Thus I tried sudo python3 wifite.py and no longer got that error.

This is particularly noticeable coming from the derv82 fork, which required I explicitly install python 2.7 for, coming to this fork, which is more modern.