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Re: Fix crash in gnulib-tool.py under Python 2.6 and lower


From: Darshit Shah
Subject: Re: Fix crash in gnulib-tool.py under Python 2.6 and lower
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 23:19:59 +0200
User-agent: NeoMutt/20180716

Well, I don't think there will be a Python 4 for a very long time. The major
version number changes only for a large backwards incompatibility. It's taken
them ~10 years and people still not on Python 3.

Anyways, I don't think this will break even with v4. Since the check is only
for ensuring the minimum version number.

* Tim Rühsen <address@hidden> [181013 23:05]:
> On 13.10.18 21:28, Darshit Shah wrote:
> > gnulib-tool.py will currently crash immediately on start if the underlying
> > Python version is 2.6 or lower. The immediate crash that is seen occurs 
> > during
> > the check for the Python version. The check uses a syntax which was only
> > introduced in 2.7. I haven't checked, but I believe that the rest of the 
> > script
> > also uses 2.7+ syntax. Hence, I have also added a check to the script to 
> > exit
> > out if the version of Python being used is less than 2.7.
> 
> Thanks so much !
> 
> But could make this a bit more future-proof. I was just thinking that
> python version 4.0 would break your checks.
> 
> Regards, Tim
> 




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Thanking You,
Darshit Shah
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