[Buildroot] [PATCH 3/6] python-rtslib-fb: new package

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Dear Christophe Vu-Brugier,

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:13:02 +0200, Christophe Vu-Brugier wrote:

> Thank you for the prompt review.

You're welcome. Thanks for submitting those packages in the first place!


> > Is it for this package that you had the Python 3 issue? Could you
> > explain a bit more the 2to3 problems you have seen?
> 
> It is for this package (and for configshell-fb and targetcli-fb) that I
> thought I had an issue with `2to3`.
> But I was wrong because it seems that `2to3` is correctly invoked by
> setup.py when it is run under Python 3.
> The installed python files are different from the source python files
> and are modified by `2to3`:
> 
> --- build/python-rtslib-fb-v2.1.fb49/rtslib/utils.py
> +++ target/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/rtslib/utils.py
> @@ -435,14 +435,14 @@
>              raise
>  
>  def set_attributes(obj, attr_dict, err_func):
> -    for name, value in attr_dict.iteritems():
> +    for name, value in attr_dict.items():
> 
> So if there is an issue, it is not caused by a broken `2to3`.

Indeed, this modification looks like a Python 2 vs. Python 3
conversion, even though I'm not familiar enough with the Python
language changes to be sure.

What was the issue you had with Python 3 ?

Thomas
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