linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scripts/spdxcheck: make python3 compliant

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Date:   Wed, 7 Nov 2018 15:32:51 -0800
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, kernel@...gutronix.de,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts/spdxcheck: make python3 compliant

On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 09:08:02 +0200 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de> wrote:

> 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.

I suppose people might want to run spdxcheck.py against (say) 4.19.x
using python3.  So I'll add a cc:stable here, OK?