Re: [Patch] BaseTools Python: Migrate Python27 to Python36

["Kinney, Michael D" <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>]

Gary,

Please send the patch to edk2-devel.

Yonghong may not be available much this week,
so you may not see a response form him till
next week.

Thanks,

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-
> bounces@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of Gary Lin
> Sent: Monday, October 1, 2018 3:24 AM
> To: Zhu, Yonghong <yonghong.zhu@intel.com>
> Cc: Sun, Yanyan <yanyan.sun@intel.com>; edk2-
> devel@lists.01.org; Chen, Hesheng
> <hesheng.chen@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [edk2] [Patch] BaseTools Python: Migrate
> Python27 to Python36
> 
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 01:02:05PM +0000, Zhu, Yonghong
> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> Hi Yonghong,
> 
> > Now we are working on bugzilla
> 55<https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55>
> (https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55)  to
> migrate BaseTools python tool from Python27 to
> Python36.  After this migration, the BaseTools will
> only support Python 3. And for now, user need to
> install a Python version >= 3.6.
> > Here is the link: https://github.com/yzhu52/edk2.git
> Branch: Python3_V2
> > In this branch, after run edksetup script file, tool
> auto detect the Python tool that version >= 3.6,  tool
> would report error if it can't find the python that >=
> 3.6.
> >
> I'm testing the branch and found a minor bug in
> edksetup.sh that caused
> OvmfPkg/build.sh failed to build. I wrote a patch and
> it works for me.
> Where should I send the patch? to the edk2-devel
> mailinglist directly?
> or a pull request in github?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gary Lin
> 
> > Current we still in doing some validation for this
> migration, and not finish the update for UPT, ECC, EOT,
> Tests those tools and scripts.
> > We already did following on this branch:
> >
> > 1.       Remove the "from __future__ import" items
> >
> > 2.       Update the xrange to range
> >
> > 3.       Update long to int
> >
> > 4.       Use input instead of raw_input
> >
> > 5.       Not use iteritems(), but use items()
> directly
> >
> > 6.       Remove the super() function argument
> >
> > 7.       Remove the itertools usage
> >
> > 8.       Fix some open file's read and write function
> >
> > 9.       Hand the bytes and str type difference
> >
> > 10.   Do some list and iterator update
> >
> > 11.   Change the division operation in the expression
> >
> > 12.   Use '\n' but not os.linesep
> >
> > 13.   Update the BinWrappers script
> >
> > 14.   Update edksetup script file
> >
> >
> > Your suggestions is highly appreciated.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Zhu Yonghong
> >
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