How to install Zxing decode barcode on raspberrypi 3

[Sontichai.s]

Hi,
How to install lib Zxing for decode barcode on raspberry Pi 3. I tried solution on this link https://github.com/dlenski/python-zxing
then got message error below.

pi@raspberrypi:~/zxing-master $ sudo pip install zxing
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple
Collecting zxing
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages ... 9.3.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-install-EsrCfK/zxing/setup.py", line 34
print("# Do not edit this file, versioning is governed by git tags", file=fh)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-EsrCfK/zxing/
pi@raspberrypi:~/zxing-master $

Some one please help me.

[scotty101]

Doesn't look like this Zxing library supports python 2 (see this. Try installing it on python 3 instead.

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sudo pip3 install zxing

Note that this is a python wrapper for a java library and that there are barcode libraries with better python support.