[PATCH] D42450: [utils] Convert update_{llc_, }test_checks.py to Python 3

Fangrui Song via Phabricator via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Tue Jan 23 16:17:09 PST 2018


MaskRay added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D42450#985807, @MatzeB wrote:

> LLVM's GettingStarted.html says "python >= 2.7" is fine for LLVM development.
>
> The old recurring theme here is that:
>
> - macOS only ships with python 2.7 to this day. So people need to install extra packages there for python 3.
> - Modern linux distributions only install python 3 by default o people need to install extra packages there for python 2.7.
>
>   Admittedly macOS doesn't even ship with a `python2.7` symlink so this script may have been broken for an out-of-the box macOS configuration anyway...


Thanks for your attention... I'd like to see llvm moving away from legacy python2.7


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