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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, "Mcnamara, John" <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Force python scripts to run with python2
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:48:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2927865.NFSFPUUofa@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B27915DBBA3421428155699D51E4CFE20267038C@IRSMSX103.ger.corp.intel.com>

2016-12-07 12:04, Mcnamara, John:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Martin Kletzander
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 7, 2016 10:17 AM
> > To: dev@dpdk.org
> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Force python scripts to run with python2
> > 
> > With python3 being the default in some distributions/installations,
> > shebang with just "python" will make the script run under version of
> > python that the scripts are not written for.  In order to fix that and
> > mitigate future errors, use shebang properly and specify the python
> > version.  That way the scripts will run in any distro/install, no matter
> > what python version is set as the default.
> 
> I think a better approach would be to make the scripts Python 2 and Python 3 compatible.
> 
> Some of the new ones already are.

Yes

The "solution" using python2 in the shebang does not work everywhere
because python2 can be an unknown command.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-07 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-07 10:16 Martin Kletzander
2016-12-07 12:04 ` Mcnamara, John
2016-12-07 14:48   ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
     [not found]     ` <20161208083941.GA20753@wheatley>
2016-12-08  9:07       ` Mcnamara, John

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