On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 11:27:42PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 22/05/2020 16:10, Kilheeney, Louise: > > From: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> > > > 22/05/2020 15:23, Louise Kilheeney: > > > > Changed script to explicitly use python3 only. > > > > > > What is the reason of this change? > > > > since python 2 is EOL, Making these scripts to use python3-only, > > it's part of a general update to have everything use python3. > > This is already using python 3 and this makes it explicit. > > This is to avoid maintaining python 2 compatibility I guess. > Please insert this real reason in the git commit log. > Also, python 2 may not be installed (unless explicitly requested) on modern distro releases. My Ubuntu 20.04 still only had a "python3" binary, no "python" binary.
> > > > --- a/config/arm/armv8_machine.py > > > +++ b/config/arm/armv8_machine.py > > > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ > > > -#!/usr/bin/python > > > +#!/usr/bin/python3 > > Are you sure all OS have /usr/bin/python3? > Is it called "python" sometimes? > Is it always located in /usr/bin/? > Shouldn't we use "#! /usr/bin/env python3" ? > Good catch. +1 for this. On BSD python is in /usr/local/bin
