From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: scripts/spdxcheck.py: make python3 compliant Without this change the following happens when using Python3 (3.6.6): $ echo "GPL-2.0" | python3 scripts/spdxcheck.py - FAIL: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode' Traceback (most recent call last): File "scripts/spdxcheck.py", line 253, in <module> parser.parse_lines(sys.stdin, args.maxlines, '-') File "scripts/spdxcheck.py", line 171, in parse_lines line = line.decode(locale.getpreferredencoding(False), errors='ignore') AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode' So as the line is already a string, there is no need to decode it and the line can be dropped. /usr/bin/python on Arch is Python 3. So this would indeed be worth going into 4.19. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181023070802.22558-1-u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/scripts/spdxcheck.py~scripts-spdxcheck-make-python3-compliant +++ a/scripts/spdxcheck.py @@ -168,7 +168,6 @@ class id_parser(object): self.curline = 0 try: for line in fd: - line = line.decode(locale.getpreferredencoding(False), errors='ignore') self.curline += 1 if self.curline > maxlines: break _
