Hello, I couldn't work further on this yesterday (but I read Documentation/SubmittingPatches, which is a good start I guess). The diff proposed by Dennis works on my machine, I'll try to figure out why the original script worked with 2.7.10. Thanks 2015-10-21 1:00 GMT+02:00 Luke Diamand <luke@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > On 20/10/15 20:36, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >> Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>>> I do not follow Python development, but does the above mean that >>>> with recent 2.x you can say ctypes without first saying "import >>>> ctypes"? It feels somewhat non-pythonesque that identifiers like >>>> this is given to you without you asking with an explicit 'import', >>>> so I am puzzled. >>> >>> >>> No, you cannot do that. The reason others may not have noticed this bug >>> is that >>> in git-p4.py, ctypes is only used on windows. >>> >>> 111 if platform.system() == 'Windows': >>> 112 free_bytes = ctypes.c_ulonglong(0) >>> 113 >>> ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetDiskFreeSpaceExW(ctypes.c_wchar_p(os.getcwd()), >>> None, None, ctypes.pointer(free_bytes)) >>> >>> The fact that it works for the OP with 2.7.10 is puzzling (assuming that >>> it's >>> on the same system). >> >> >> Exactly. That is where my "I am puzzled" comes from. >> >> The patch looks obviously the right thing to do. Luke? Lars? > > > It looks sensible to me, and works fine on Linux, thanks. ack. > > I can't test on Windows today but I can't see why it wouldn't work. > > Luke > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html