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SubjectRe: [PATCH] scripts/spdxcheck: make python3 compliant
Hello,

On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 07:22:00AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 03:32:51PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 09:08:02 +0200 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> >
> > > Without this change the following happens when using Python3 (3.6.6):
> > >
> > > $ echo "GPL-2.0" | python3 scripts/spdxcheck.py -
> > > FAIL: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > > File "scripts/spdxcheck.py", line 253, in <module>
> > > parser.parse_lines(sys.stdin, args.maxlines, '-')
> > > File "scripts/spdxcheck.py", line 171, in parse_lines
> > > line = line.decode(locale.getpreferredencoding(False), errors='ignore')
> > > AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'
> > >
> > > So as the line is already a string, there is no need to decode it and
> > > the line can be dropped.
> >
> > I suppose people might want to run spdxcheck.py against (say) 4.19.x
> > using python3. So I'll add a cc:stable here, OK?
>
> Not sure if people call spdxcheck.py stand-alone. checkpatch.pl calls it
> using "python scripts/spdxcheck.py" which AFAICT should still be python2
> on all machines. The shebang-line also uses "python" and not "python3".
>
> So for now this is only cosmetic (unless there are distros that install
> Python 3 as "python").

I just learned that /usr/bin/python on Arch is Python 3. So this would
indeed be worth to go into 4.19.

Best regards
Uwe

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