Em Thu, 5 Sep 2019 16:17:23 +0200 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 06:57:01AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 06:23:13 -0300 > > Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Python's PEP-263 [1] dictates that an script that needs to default to > > > UTF-8 encoding has to follow this rule: > > > > > > 'Python will default to ASCII as standard encoding if no other > > > encoding hints are given. > > > > > > To define a source code encoding, a magic comment must be placed > > > into the source files either as first or second line in the file' > > > > So this is only Python 2, right? Well, Debian 10 (buster) was launched this year, and still comes with python2 (with is the default): $ ls -la /usr/bin/python lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Mar 4 2019 /usr/bin/python -> python2 I think Debian devs will keep it maintained for a while, as this is a LTS distro. > > Python 3 is UTF8 by default. Given that > > Python 2 is EOL in January, is this something we should be concerned > > about? Or should we instead be making sure that all the Python we have > > in-tree works properly with Python 3 and be done with it? > > I recommend just using python 3 everywhere and be done with it as there > are already many distros that default to that already. Then we need to change the scripts, as they're currently pointing to /usr/bin/python instead of /usr/bin/python3. At least on the distros I use myself, this doesn't point to /etc/alternates. Instead, it is just an alias to python2. Thanks, Mauro
