Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] Introduce new acpi/smbios avocado tests using biosbits

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 10/10/2022 10.13, Ani Sinha wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 1:24 PM Ani Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Please see the README file added in patch 10 for more details.
>> Sample runs are as follows:
>>
>> $ ./tests/venv/bin/avocado run -t acpi tests/avocado --tap -
>> ERROR:  Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(...)? (smbios.py, line 92)
>> ERROR:  Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(...)? (smilatency.py, line 47)
>> ERROR:  Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(...)? (testacpi.py, line 158)
> 
> None of the above files are avocado tests or avocado related python
> scripts. They are run from within bits in a python 2.7 environment. I
> could not find a mechanism to exclude a directory from avocado tests.
> I also do not think making those scripts python 3 compliant is a good
> use of my time since upgrading bits to use python 3 would be a major
> task unrelated to QEMU testing.

Maybe you could at least switch those three lines to use the new print() 
syntax to silence at least these ugly errors? ... Python 2.7 should cope 
very well with the new syntax, as far as I know...

Otherwise, it might be better to put the non-avocado python files into 
another directory under tests/ ?

  Thomas