Re: [Xen-devel] Python version

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I'm having trouble using xc_com_create.py.  It reports that it's missing
> tempfile.mkdtemp() in xend_control_message from line 195 of
> xenctl/utils.py.  The xen.bkbits.net indicates this change was added to
> version 1.19 on 14 March.
> 
> The reason it's missing is it was only introduced to Python 2.3, and
> both Red Hat Linux 9 and Fedora are using 2.2 (2.2.2-26 and 2.2.3-7
> respectively).  Although I can install the 2.3 RPM from python.org along
> side Red Hat's, /usr/bin/python is still 2.2 and changing that would
> break all sorts, as discussed in this FAQ:
> 
> http://www.python.org/2.3.3/rpms.html#FAQ
> 
> Changing "python" to "python2.3" in the scripts doesn't import Xc.so
> since it's installed in 2.2 site packages.  We could change every python
> script to specify python2.3 instead of the default system version and
> fix the site packages too, but forcing a particular version seems bad.
> 
> What distributions are these scripts tested to work on?  Is there any
> magic I should be using to make things work on Red Hat?

Whoops! I use Python 2.3 for most testing, so these backward
incompatibilities tend to creep in.  Python earlier than 2.2 we don't
care about, but 2.2 is used by a lot of distros.  Since we certainly
want to support Python 2.2 we'll need an alternative to tempfile. I'll
look into this.

 -- Keir


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