[sos-devel] [PATCH v3] sosreport: Check for rpm database corruption during initialization

[Bryn M. Reeves]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 10:54:32AM +0530, Aruna Balakrishnaiah wrote:
> On Thursday 11 December 2014 04:44 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> >On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 12:15:30PM +0530, Aruna Balakrishnaiah wrote:
> >>On Wednesday 10 December 2014 11:02 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> >>>Why use distutils.log here? It's not used anywhere else in sos; it
> >>>would be cleaner to just print to stderr:
> >>>
> >>>     print(error_message, file=sys.stderr)
> >>Bryn,
> >>
> >>This is available only since Python 3.0, lower versions are not supporting this.
> >No that's not correct - 3.0 just makes the print function the default
> >(and remove the print statement). The print() function is available in
> >python 2.6 (our oldest supported runtime) and onwards via the __future__
> >module:
> >
> ># python
> >Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Nov 21 2013, 10:50:32)
> >[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4)] on linux2
> >Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>>>from __future__ import print_statement
> 
> In python 2.7 it is print_function and not print_statement.

You're right (it always was) - that wa a typo in my example, good catch! :)

Cheers,
Bryn.