Hi Gabriel - back on your patch from last July (sorry): https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2019-07/msg00002.html
replace the imp functions with the new ones from importlib. ... -import sys, os, py_compile, imp +import sys, os, py_compile, importlib I understand the problem, but unfortunately the new code is not compatible with Python 2. I don't know the best way to handle that. Help? With the patch, the tests, e.g., py-compile-basedir, fail with the not-unexpected: + ./py-compile --basedir foo __init__.py sub/__init__.py Byte-compiling python modules... __init__.pyTraceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 15, in <module> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'implementation' I know Python 2 itself is being eradicated, but still, automake cannot simply abandon it. About all I can imagine is to change the above line to something like: import sys, os, py_compile, $import_library and check the version number of $PYTHON in the script before and set $import_library accordingly. That is not especially pretty. Is there a way to do it within Python that would be cleaner and work with both versions? I also don't see the deprecation warning, but I only have Python 3.6.8 at the moment, so I suppose it came in with Python 3.7. --thanks, karl.