tophat install error : except getopt.error, msg: SyntaxError: invalid syntax

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Error :
File "./tophat", line 1003
    except getopt.error, msg:
                       ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

To solve :
edit tophat

#!/usr/bin/env python2

instead of

#!/usr/bin/env python


This error comes from the difference between python2 and python3.

check your path  and version of python