linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/2] docs: changes: better document Python needs

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Message-ID: <9dc14f4a5adda5a8a40220404648457d56212cca@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 18:04:45 +0300
From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Laurent Pinchart
 <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>, Linux Doc Mailing List
 <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 workflows@...r.kernel.org, Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/2] docs: changes: better document Python needs

On Tue, 29 Jul 2025, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org> wrote:
> I don't think we should do much effort to support Python 2, but it comes
> almost for free: only shebang needs to be different, and, if the comments
> inside the doc contains non-utf8 chars, an encoding line.

As said in the other thread, changing the shebang is not a trivial
thing. I don't have 'python' installed, haven't had for years, just
'python3'.

BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel