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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] configure: keep track of Python version
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Eduardo Habkost |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] configure: keep track of Python version |
Date: |
Fri, 9 Nov 2018 19:25:29 -0200 |
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Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) |
On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 02:51:11PM -0500, Cleber Rosa wrote:
>
>
> On 11/9/18 1:25 PM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> >>
> >> "Python -V" is quite different from "sys.version". Indeed it includes
> >> the "Python " prefix, but that's all, everything else is the version
> >> number.
> >
> > Is this a guarantee documented somewhere?
> >
>
> Oops, looks like I missed that comment, and failed to address it. Now,
> I must say I don't expect a documented guarantee about this will exist,
> but it looks like this is an acknowledged use case:
>
> https://bugs.python.org/issue18338
Well, considering that it even has a unit test checking for a
specific format[1], I think the usage in this patch can be
considered acceptable.
[1] https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e6384b8b2325
--
Eduardo
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] configure: keep track of Python version, Eduardo Habkost, 2018/11/09
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] check-venv: use recorded Python version, Cleber Rosa, 2018/11/09
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] Travis CI: make specified Python versions usable on jobs, Cleber Rosa, 2018/11/09