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Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 14:10:32 +0100
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Making QEMU build with Python 3
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To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, ross@burtonini.com

On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 11:16:58AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> Ross created a bug to track Python 3 support:
> 
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1708462
> 
> Currently most Python code in QEMU is for Python 2.6+ only.  There
> have only been a few patches adding Python 3 support to certain
> scripts so far.
> 
> In this email I want to highlight the most important scripts that need
> Python 3 support.  Volunteers are welcome!
> 
> Python scripts needed to build QEMU are the highest priority.  They
> are invoked by ./configure or make.  I've identified the following:
> 
> scripts/signrom.py
> scripts/qapi*.py
> scripts/modules/module_block.py
> scripts/tracetool*

> I have tracetool on my todo list and hope to add Python 3 support in QEMU 2.11.

AFAICT tracetool seems to already work - i hacked rules.mak to
run tracetool via python3 and nothing obvious broke

Regards,
Daniel
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