Pip install crashing at "Compiling" phase due to "Syntax error"

[Sreejith R]

To reproduce, do this inside a new virtualenv:

pip install Django==1.9

This is the output:

(test)~ ❯❯❯ pip install Django==1.9
Downloading/unpacking Django==1.9
  Downloading Django-1.9-py2.py3-none-any.whl (6.6MB): 6.6MB downloaded
Installing collected packages: Django
Compiling /Users/sreejith/Envs/test/build/Django/django/conf/app_template/apps.py ...
  File "/Users/sreejith/Envs/test/build/Django/django/conf/app_template/apps.py", line 4
    class {{ camel_case_app_name }}Config(AppConfig):
          ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Compiling /Users/sreejith/Envs/test/build/Django/django/conf/app_template/models.py ...
  File "/Users/sreejith/Envs/test/build/Django/django/conf/app_template/models.py", line 1
    {{ unicode_literals }}from django.db import models
                             ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Successfully installed Django
Cleaning up...

I made a project in the virtualenv and tested. It works. Does anyone else have this problem?

[Tim Graham]

Please see ​​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/releases/1.9/#syntaxerror-when-installing-django-setuptools-5-5-x.