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From: "Mcnamara, John" <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
To: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Force python scripts to run with python2
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 09:07:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B27915DBBA3421428155699D51E4CFE2026711A5@IRSMSX103.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161208083941.GA20753@wheatley>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Kletzander [mailto:mkletzan@redhat.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2016 8:40 AM
> To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Force python scripts to run with python2
> 
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 03:48:37PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> >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.
> 
> I have not come across a system that would not have python2 as at least a
> symlink or an executable.  However if that is the concern, I can have a
> look at making all scripts python3 compatible, although I'm not yet
> familiar enough with DPDK to be able to properly test all of them.  So
> I'll try and ask if needed.
> 
> Thanks for the input.
> 

Hi Martin,

I'll work on adding Python2/3 compatibility, and while I'm at it PEP8 compatibility.

John

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-12-08  9:07 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
     [not found]     ` <20161208083941.GA20753@wheatley>
2016-12-08  9:07       ` Mcnamara, John [this message]

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