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

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 01:43:32PM +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
> 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.

Debugged yes, but I don't think I'd call this optimized code - it
is pretty much all a quick hack.

> 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)

Is your locale ($LANG / $LC_*) not using a UTF-8 character set perhaps ?

Regards,
Daniel
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