Re: Status of python3 for fio?

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On 3/28/18 11:17 AM, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 28 March 2018 at 16:45, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Fedora is moving more and more towards python3.  (TBH, as a non-python
>> expert, I don't know all the details...)
>>
>> I see that python2.7 is hardcoded in several scripts, and Jens though
>> there were possibly some patches "floating out there" to switch
>> the various scripts to python3.  Does anyone know the status of
>> this work?
> 
> fiologparser_hist.py was made Python 3 compatible but it's unknown
> whether all the other scripts are as ready (I'm going to guess no). The
> hope is that eventually all scripts will be made Python 3 ready but it
> will be up to distros to rename the interpreter to use to one they
> like at packaging time because it's impossible to satisfy all distros
> with a single interpreter line...
> 
> You can see the rationale behind the python2.7 rename here:
> https://github.com/axboe/fio/commit/60023ade47e7817db1c18d9b7e511839de5c2c99
> and here: https://www.spinics.net/lists/fio/msg06746.html (and a
> followup here
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/fio/msg06748.html ).

Ok, thanks.  So, I'm going to try using the automated tools to make them
python3-compatible.

I'm no python guru, so I hope that if I take a semi-dumb approach and send
patches it'll at least be a starting point, if not perfect.

Thanks,
-Eric
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