On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 09:08:02 +0200 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koe...@pengutronix.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?
