Re: [PATCH] kunit: tool: Assert version requirement

[SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>]

From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>

Hello Daniel,

On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 14:14:40 -0700 Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 2:40 AM SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
> >
> > Commit 87c9c1631788 ("kunit: tool: add support for QEMU") on the 'next'
> > tree adds 'from __future__ import annotations' in 'kunit_kernel.py'.
> > Because it is supported on only >=3.7 Python, people using older Python
> > will get below error:
> 
> Ah, we had been fine with just using 3.6 before this (and could have
> dropped down to 3.5 with a few lines changed).
> 
> But 3.7 came out initially in 2018*, so I assume we're probably fine
> to rely on that in kunit tool.
> *https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-370/

Agreed.

> 
> >
> >     Traceback (most recent call last):
> >       File "./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py", line 20, in <module>
> >         import kunit_kernel
> >       File "/home/sjpark/linux/tools/testing/kunit/kunit_kernel.py", line 9
> >         from __future__ import annotations
> >         ^
> >     SyntaxError: future feature annotations is not defined
> >
> > This commit adds a version assertion in 'kunit.py', so that people get
> > more explicit error message like below:
> >
> >    Traceback (most recent call last):
> >       File "./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py", line 15, in <module>
> >         assert sys.version_info >= (3, 7)
> >     AssertionError
> >
> > Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
> 
> Acked-by: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com>

Thank you! :)

> 
> > ---
> >  tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py b/tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py
> > index be8d8d4a4e08..748d88178506 100755
> > --- a/tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py
> > +++ b/tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py
> > @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ import sys
> >  import os
> >  import time
> >
> > +assert sys.version_info >= (3, 7)
> 
> Do we perhaps want
>   assert sys.version_info >= (3, 7), "Python version is too old"
> 
> Then the error message would be
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py", line 15, in <module>
>       assert sys.version_info >= (3, 7), "Python version is too old"
>   AssertionError: Python version is too old

That looks easier to understand.  I will post v2 in reply to this.


Thanks,
SeongJae Park

> 
> I assume kernel devs know some Python, but not necessarily that
> sys.version_info == "my python version"
> 
> > +
> >  from collections import namedtuple
> >  from enum import Enum, auto
> >
> > --
> > 2.17.1
> >
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