[edk2-devel] [PATCH] BaseTools: Fix python3.8 SyntaxWarning

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 07/13/19 04:54, Bob Feng wrote:
> I tested this patch on python2.7 and 3.7. It works fine.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Bob Feng <bob.c.feng at intel.com>

(This is commit eebc135ffb21 now, thanks!)
Laszlo

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laszlo Ersek [mailto:lersek at redhat.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2019 5:03 AM
> To: Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com>; devel at edk2.groups.io
> Cc: Feng, Bob C <bob.c.feng at intel.com>; Gao, Liming <liming.gao at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] BaseTools: Fix python3.8 SyntaxWarning
> 
> On 07/12/19 19:29, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> Building with python3.8 shows a warning like:
>>
>> SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence \(
>>   GuidName = re.compile("\(GUID=[-a-fA-F0-9]+")
>>
>> It seems harmless, but it's easy enough to fix: mark the string as raw 
>> with the 'r' prefix like is used elsewhere in the file
> 
> I think the intent is to escape the opening paren '(' so that it lose its special regex meaning. Is that correct?
> 
> And, the issue is that the backslash, meant for escaping the paren, in effect introduces a *string literal* escape sequence. Is that correct?
> 
> If so, would it be correct to replace '\(' with '\\('?
> 
> (IOW, use the string literal escape sequence \\ to encode a raw \, and then let the raw \ escape the ( on the regex level.)
> 
> Anyway, after reading up a bit on raw string literals, the patch appears to do the same, only more readably. :)
> 
> Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com>
> 
> (CC'ing BaseTools maintainers Bob and Liming.)
> 
> Thanks!
> Laszlo
> 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  BaseTools/Source/Python/build/build.py | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/BaseTools/Source/Python/build/build.py 
>> b/BaseTools/Source/Python/build/build.py
>> index 8c3315619a..d6006b651f 100644
>> --- a/BaseTools/Source/Python/build/build.py
>> +++ b/BaseTools/Source/Python/build/build.py
>> @@ -1499,7 +1499,7 @@ class Build():
>>          if self.Fdf:
>>              # First get the XIP base address for FV map file.
>>              GuidPattern = re.compile("[-a-fA-F0-9]+")
>> -            GuidName = re.compile("\(GUID=[-a-fA-F0-9]+")
>> +            GuidName = re.compile(r"\(GUID=[-a-fA-F0-9]+")
>>              for FvName in Wa.FdfProfile.FvDict:
>>                  FvMapBuffer = os.path.join(Wa.FvDir, FvName + '.Fv.map')
>>                  if not os.path.exists(FvMapBuffer):
>>
> 
> 
> 
> 


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