Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 00/11] scripts: convert many scripts from perl to python

On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 11:21:55AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: [snipping the zoo] > > Daniel P. Berrangé (11): > cfg.mk: fix comment detection for python semicolon check > docs: rewrite hvsupport.html page generator in python > docs: rewrite ACL permissions checker in Python > docs: rewrite symfile sorting checker in Python > docs: rewrite symfile library checker in Python > docs: rewrite augest test generator in Python > docs: rewrite po file minimizer in Python > docs: rewrite duplicate header checker in Python > docs: rewrite whitespace checker in Python > docs: rewrite mock inline checker in Python > docs: rewrite header ifdef checker in Python > As I said in RE: Language Consolidation, this could use a preceding HACKING change with justification. Also, rewrite to a new language does mean throwing away debugged and optimized code - but if the end goal is to drop automake and configure, overall the build will be much quicker anyway.

Also, this does not work with Python 3.6 on my Gentoo: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./build-aux/prohibit-duplicate-header.py", line 48, in <module> if check_file(filename): File "./build-aux/prohibit-duplicate-header.py", line 30, in check_file for line in fh: File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python3.6/../../../lib64/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0] UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 548: ordinal not in range(128)