Yo Fred!

On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 13:41:27 -0800 (PST)
Fred Wright via devel <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Jan 2019, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 19:01:40 -0800 (PST)
> > Fred Wright via devel <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote:
> >  
> >>> Well, the way we use sys.stdout is warned about in the Python doc.
> >>> That is enough for me to want it aligned with the python doc.  
> >>
> >> The real question is why the build procedure thinks it needs to
> >> output 'bytes' to the terminal,  
> >
> > Easy, to fix make the code work with Python2 and Python 3.
> >
> > See here:
> >
> > https://gitlab.com/esr/practical-python-porting/blob/master/polystr-inclusion.py
> > http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/practical-python-porting/
> >
> > Weird, but no one has done better.  
> 
> Yes, I'm familiar with that, having done some of the Python3 work on
> GPSD. :-)

I figured as much.

> But the only reason to use make_std_wrapper() is when

I don't care about reasons.  The code is there in NTPsec.  It is used in
NTPsec.  It breaks in the way Python doc says it would.

I don't care whether it gets removed or fixed.

> > Something for Eric to add to the INSTALL procedure and to his
> > 'Practical Python Porting".  
> 
> Probably not, since it's specific to the misuse of the polyglot hacks
> with waf (or perhaps other things that override the standard Python
> stdio).

Well, fix it, or document it.  Someone needs to do one or the other.

RGDS
GARY
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