[bitbake-devel] Warnings when starting bitbake with Python 3.8.0

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2019-11-15 at 09:26 -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-11-15 at 09:21 -0700, Christopher Larson wrote:
> > That’s definitely a bug, incorrect usage of `is`.
> > On Nov 15, 2019, 6:06 AM -0700, Paul Barker <paul at betafive.co.uk>,
> > wrote:
> > > I'm using Arch on one of my dev machines and recent upgrades have
> > > brought in Python 3.8.0.
> > > 
> > > When running bitbake (latest master,
> > > 33197db8abf82be240d7c1c5c9d2484a08a90849) I'm seeing the
> > > following
> > > warnings. This only happens on the first invocation as
> > > __pycache__
> > > is used after this.
> > > 
> > > /.../bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/clearcase.py:148: SyntaxWarning: "is"
> > > with a literal. Did you mean "=="?
> > > if command is 'mkview':
> > > /.../bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/clearcase.py:155: SyntaxWarning: "is"
> > > with a literal. Did you mean "=="?
> > > elif command is 'rmview':
> > > /.../bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/clearcase.py:159: SyntaxWarning: "is"
> > > with a literal. Did you mean "=="?
> > > elif command is 'setcs':
> > > 
> > > I've never used the clearcase fetcher and have no way of testing
> > > this myself so I don't want to dive into it. May be worth someone
> > > who is using this taking a look at it though.
> > > 
> 
> Yes, this was latent, either a patch or bug will be good to have

Rather than see more emails and bugs on this I sent a patch...

Cheers,

Richard