import versioneer gives SyntaxError on *MATCH_ARGS

Question

python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 4, in <module>
    import versioneer
  File "/cygdrive/c/Users/Mansi/Downloads/cvxopt-1.3.0/versioneer.py", line 1194
    "--always", "--long", *MATCH_ARGS],
                          ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Does anyone happen to know why this error is coming?