Hi Masahiro, On 6 August 2014 21:51, Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]> wrote: > > In Python, sys.exit() function can also take an object other > than an integer. > > If an integer is given to the argument, Python exits with the return > code of it. If a non-integer argument is given, Python output it > to stderr and exits with the return code of 1. > > That means, > > print >> sys.stderr, "Blah Blah" > sys.exit(1) > > is equivalent to > > sys.exit("Blah Blah") > > The latter is a useful shorthand. > > Note: > Some error messages in Buildman and Patman were output to stdout. > But they should go to stderr. They are also fixed by this commit. > This is a nice side effect. > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]> > Cc: Simon Glass <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]> I suppose it is OK to pass ANSI strings to this function. Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot

