[elbe-devel] [PATCH] elbe: shebang: force python2

[Torben Hohn]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:00:43AM +0300, Andrey Skvortsov wrote:
> On 17-03-22 10:44, Kurt Kanzenbach wrote:
> > Seems like Elbe is written in Python2. However, some distributions ship Python3
> > as default version. This results in errors like this:
> > 
> >   File "./elbe", line 29
> >     print 'elbe v' + elbe_version
> >                  ^
> >   SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'
> > 
> > So better force the used version to Python2.
> 
> Wouldn't better to fix this error to use compatible with python3
> implementation? 

Yes it would, but there are a lot more instances of python2 code.
We are already using from __future__ import print_function in several
modules. 

Its not only the print () which needs to change.
We also make heavy use of ("%s" % string) constructs.


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