Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] autotest: fix for pure python3 environments

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 04:43:50PM +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
>    On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 1:25 PM Bruce Richardson
>    <[1]bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
> 
>      On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 10:36:35AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
>      > On Thu, 2020-05-07 at 09:26 +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
>      > > Without this fix in a pure python3 environment this will run
>      into
>      > > issues like:
>      > >   ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'StringIO'
>      > > or later string encoding issues on check_output.
>      > >
>      > > Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt
>      <[2]christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
>      > > ---
>      > >  app/test/autotest_runner.py | 16 +++++++---------
>      > >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>      >
>      > Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <[3]bluca@debian.org>
>      >
>      > Note that this makes the file python3-only (as far as I can see) -
>      I
>      > think it's fine at this point, given python2 is EOL?
>      >
>      I think for 20.11 we should aim to have all python in DPDK python3
>      only.
> 
>    IMHO Robin's feeback wasn't forcing a mandatory v2 (I wa not planning
>    on one).
>    Nothing else happened on this, since we failed to hit 20.05 I wanted to
>    ping again on this.
>
Just to note that similar changes/fixes are included in set:
http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=10204