From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: "Dafna Hirschfeld" <dafna.hirschfeld@collabora.com>,
"Nícolas F. R. A. Prado" <nfraprado@protonmail.com>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
lkcamp@lists.libreplanetbr.org, andrealmeid@collabora.com
Subject: Re: Python 2.7 support and automarkup.py - Was: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] docs: automarkup.py: Use new C roles in Sphinx 3
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 08:14:40 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201030081440.47a74dad@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201030151026.3afd7997@coco.lan>
On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 15:10:26 +0100
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> wrote:
> I see a few alternatives:
>
> 1) fix automarkup.py for it to work again with python 2.7;
>
> 2) conf.py could gain some logic to disable automarkup with
> Python < 3;
>
> 3) scripts/sphinx-pre-install already detects Python version.
> It should likely be easy to ask the user to use python 3.x,
> if an older version is detected.
>
> Doing (1) or (2) will require an additional step when we raise
> the bar for Python version.
We haven't dropped support for Python 2 yet, so this constitutes a
regression. My own approach would be something like this at the top of
automarkup.py:
if python2:
ascii = 0
else:
ascii = re.ASCII
...then s/re.ASCII/ascii/ throughout. I can probably put together
something later this morning.
jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-30 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-13 23:13 [PATCH v2 0/5] docs: automarkup.py: Make automarkup ready for Sphinx 3.1+ Nícolas F. R. A. Prado
2020-10-13 23:13 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] docs: automarkup.py: Use new C roles in Sphinx 3 Nícolas F. R. A. Prado
2020-10-30 13:33 ` Dafna Hirschfeld
2020-10-30 14:00 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-10-30 14:10 ` Python 2.7 support and automarkup.py - Was: " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-10-30 14:14 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2020-10-30 14:15 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-10-30 14:39 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-10-13 23:13 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] docs: automarkup.py: Fix regexes to solve sphinx 3 warnings Nícolas F. R. A. Prado
2020-10-14 19:11 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-10-13 23:13 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] docs: automarkup.py: Skip C reserved words when cross-referencing Nícolas F. R. A. Prado
2020-10-13 23:13 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] docs: automarkup.py: Add cross-reference for parametrized C macros Nícolas F. R. A. Prado
2020-10-13 23:13 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] docs: automarkup.py: Allow automatic cross-reference inside C namespace Nícolas F. R. A. Prado
2020-10-14 9:56 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-10-14 19:19 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-11-02 15:33 ` Nícolas F. R. A. Prado
2020-10-30 15:07 Python 2.7 support and automarkup.py - Was: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] docs: automarkup.py: Use new C roles in Sphinx 3 Nícolas F. R. A. Prado
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