From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from rn-mailsvcp-ppex-lapp24.apple.com (rn-mailsvcp-ppex-lapp24.apple.com [17.179.253.38]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web08.212.1633455266928912114 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2021 10:34:27 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=pass header.i=@apple.com header.s=20180706 header.b=qidzUrF6; spf=pass (domain: apple.com, ip: 17.179.253.38, mailfrom: afish@apple.com) Received: from pps.filterd (rn-mailsvcp-ppex-lapp24.rno.apple.com [127.0.0.1]) by rn-mailsvcp-ppex-lapp24.rno.apple.com (8.16.1.2/8.16.1.2) with SMTP id 195HX62N030721; Tue, 5 Oct 2021 10:33:54 -0700 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=apple.com; h=content-type : content-transfer-encoding : from : mime-version : subject : date : message-id : references : cc : in-reply-to : to; s=20180706; bh=lfzt6iam04JViqyw9wqJs9c6Dbf6szclLgH5b8zG7To=; b=qidzUrF6cynb3U4C34qAV7TbE5C5CUWOqD9yUfQ0pzZDtDsFvJsrNTjt2nx9VmvBEvRv lJEF4oA7GEvu32n43s5Y3BJUWiY/eKJ2r3twPgjz10J2ceWgd7GKoejPOuX53VUfQbct SWRd8XFmldGJpvPvdRmb4GSPQVYWdNheRFkcfwMeofnAjxRpTChajad7F7AnPWN4UAL2 9Aaf31mFpxuId/9G0JfXK0eMEcBzM1wc5hQou4Itghu6QzeMX1gNFDkW688wvou+UjaQ /nBuazD8uxiOighybtcjY5po2YbXtT/jOHLPYk7dZfoPBc4rQmidmHtpsHpRWEx72Xe/ Cw== Received: from rn-mailsvcp-mta-lapp03.rno.apple.com (rn-mailsvcp-mta-lapp03.rno.apple.com [10.225.203.151]) by rn-mailsvcp-ppex-lapp24.rno.apple.com with ESMTP id 3ben19j42b-2 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 05 Oct 2021 10:33:54 -0700 Received: from rn-mailsvcp-mmp-lapp01.rno.apple.com (rn-mailsvcp-mmp-lapp01.rno.apple.com [17.179.253.14]) by rn-mailsvcp-mta-lapp03.rno.apple.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 8.1.0.9.20210415 64bit (built Apr 15 2021)) with ESMTPS id <0R0I0002AM4HS5K0@rn-mailsvcp-mta-lapp03.rno.apple.com>; Tue, 05 Oct 2021 10:33:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from process_milters-daemon.rn-mailsvcp-mmp-lapp01.rno.apple.com by rn-mailsvcp-mmp-lapp01.rno.apple.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 8.1.0.9.20210415 64bit (built Apr 15 2021)) id <0R0I00O00LYWEB00@rn-mailsvcp-mmp-lapp01.rno.apple.com>; Tue, 05 Oct 2021 10:33:53 -0700 (PDT) X-Va-A: X-Va-T-CD: d63a51ccd7cb0fd6c28d6bbf723c289d X-Va-E-CD: c0a0ac71d2ceb1ed9015a4ba8666d288 X-Va-R-CD: a6d73fb83231138b21156994eccc88be X-Va-CD: 0 X-Va-ID: 414545bf-a97d-4a14-b27b-3bb696951626 X-V-A: X-V-T-CD: d63a51ccd7cb0fd6c28d6bbf723c289d X-V-E-CD: c0a0ac71d2ceb1ed9015a4ba8666d288 X-V-R-CD: a6d73fb83231138b21156994eccc88be X-V-CD: 0 X-V-ID: 26f2d0fb-bf6e-4649-a34a-97bec24b9c8b X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:6.0.391,18.0.790 definitions=2021-10-05_03:2021-10-04,2021-10-05 signatures=0 Received: from smtpclient.apple (unknown [17.11.61.21]) by rn-mailsvcp-mmp-lapp01.rno.apple.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 8.1.0.9.20210415 64bit (built Apr 15 2021)) with ESMTPSA id <0R0I008FCM4D8Q00@rn-mailsvcp-mmp-lapp01.rno.apple.com>; Tue, 05 Oct 2021 10:33:53 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew Fish" MIME-version: 1.0 (1.0) Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] Python2.7 is not working with the EDK2 build system Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2021 10:33:49 -0700 Message-id: <9A6AA44B-4BF2-4A7E-BA51-8F18C2F8B719@apple.com> References: <58506871-5490-24ef-1638-84e155bb805e@redhat.com> Cc: gaoliming , sunny.Wang@arm.com, "Feng, Bob C" , "Chen, Christine" , Sami Mujawar , Samer El-Haj-Mahmoud , Gerd Hoffmann In-reply-to: <58506871-5490-24ef-1638-84e155bb805e@redhat.com> To: devel@edk2.groups.io, crobinso@redhat.com X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (19A346) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:6.0.391,18.0.790 definitions=2021-10-05_03:2021-10-04,2021-10-05 signatures=0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Should we move to require a min Python version at some point? > On Oct 5, 2021, at 9:48 AM, Cole wrote: >=20 > =EF=BB=BFOn 9/6/21 9:18 PM, gaoliming wrote: >> Bob: >>=20 >> Yes. Python3 is the formal support. We recommend user to use Python3. >> But, if user meets the issue in Python2, user can still report the issue >> in BaseTools. Its priority may be low. For this case, it is the >> regression issue caused by the recent change. The patch owner is also >> identified. So, I suggest the patch owner to follow up and enhance his >> patch. >>=20 >=20 > Sorry for the delayed response, I was on paternity leave since August. >=20 > I haven't seen the actual error in this thread. Is there a clear python > error being thrown? Maybe the fix is simple but I can't >=20 > But as mentioned elsewhere, python2 has been End of Life since Jan 1 > 2020, over 1.5 years ago. It's going to become increasingly difficult to > keep code working on python2 and latest python3. >=20 > - Cole >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20