Bug 71723

Summary: Change /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/python2 in python scripts
Product: WebKit Reporter: Rafael Antognolli <antognolli+webkit>
Component: Tools / TestsAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: Normal CC: eric
Priority: P2    
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   

Rafael Antognolli
Reported 2011-11-07 12:56:25 PST
Many python scripts are written for use with python2, but they have #!/usr/bin/python in the beginning of the script. For instance, the script WebKit/Source/WebCore/inspector/CodeGeneratorInspector.py has this problem. But in some linux distributions, /usr/bin/python already points to python 3 instead of python 2, thus the script is incompatible. There are some discussions already about making it a standard to have /usr/bin/python2 in the system, like here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-March/108571.html So, could we make this change on our scripts? (I can file a patch making that sed if people agree) Regards, Rafael
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Eric Seidel (no email)
Comment 1 2011-11-07 13:12:37 PST
We should just fix our scripts to support Python 3 (if possible). python2 doesn't exist on Macs.
Eric Seidel (no email)
Comment 2 2011-11-07 13:13:14 PST
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 55037 ***
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