On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 03:48:09PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
On Fri, 2018-11-16 at 15:08 -0800, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
From: Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de Subject: scripts/spdxcheck.py: make python3 compliant
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.
/usr/bin/python on Arch is Python 3. So this would indeed be worth going into 4.19.
OK, I tested this (and it works fine) but found I needed to install a couple of extra packages that I didn't already have for the default python3 installation.
python3-ply and python3-git
Perhaps that should be mentioned in some requirements doc.
In fact, scripts/spdxcheck.py is not mentioned in any doc file.
In fact I tried to run spdxcheck with python3 becaus I didn't have python-ply and python-git which don't come with python2 :-)
Best regards Uwe