Yum commands are failing with 'File "/usr/libexec/urlgrabber-ext-down", line 28' error.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Yum commands are failing with below error:

     File "/usr/libexec/urlgrabber-ext-down", line 28
     except OSError, e:
                   ^
 SyntaxError: invalid syntax
   File "/usr/libexec/urlgrabber-ext-down", line 28
     except OSError, e:
                   ^

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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