Following the tutorial on python.org I tried to install Swampy in the following ways:
easy_install -f http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/swampy/install.html
easy_install http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/swampy/swampy-2.0.python.zip
easy_install swampy-2.0
(Swampy's folder was already placed in the site-packages folder).
But none of those are working! what the bobba am I doing wrong?
You may get this if you are running Python 3.x, and swampy is only compatible with Python 2.x. That would explain syntax errors (assuming the version of swampy on PyPI isn't broken for some other reason).