Vanilla dev installation fails at 'yapps'

sudo apt-get install yapps2

$ find src -type f  -iname '*akefile*' -exec grep -H yapp {} \;
src/hal/utils/Submakefile:	$(Q)yapps $< $@

$ which yapps
/usr/bin/yapps

$ ls -lL $(which yapps)
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4130 Nov  8  2016 /usr/bin/yapps

$ which yapps2
/usr/bin/yapps2

$ ls -la /usr/bin/yapps2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Feb 25 23:58 /usr/bin/yapps2 -> ../lib/python-exec/python-exec2

Syntax checking python script halcompile
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "objects/hal/utils/halcompile.py", line 1307
    """ % {'name': os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])}
      ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
make: *** [hal/utils/Submakefile:89: ../bin/halcompile] Error 1

python --version
Python 2.7.14

from __future__ import print_function