Running iotests is not required to build QEMU, so we can have stricter version requirements for Python here and can make use of new features and drop compatibility code earlier.
This makes qemu-iotests skip all Python tests if a Python version before 3.6 is used for the build. Suggested-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsement...@virtuozzo.com> --- tests/qemu-iotests/check | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/check b/tests/qemu-iotests/check index 875399d79f..588c453a94 100755 --- a/tests/qemu-iotests/check +++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/check @@ -633,6 +633,12 @@ then export SOCKET_SCM_HELPER="$build_iotests/socket_scm_helper" fi +python_usable=false +if $PYTHON -c 'import sys; sys.exit(0 if sys.version_info >= (3,6) else 1)' +then + python_usable=true +fi + default_machine=$($QEMU_PROG -machine help | sed -n '/(default)/ s/ .*//p') default_alias_machine=$($QEMU_PROG -machine help | \ sed -n "/(alias of $default_machine)/ { s/ .*//p; q; }") @@ -809,7 +815,12 @@ do start=$(_wallclock) if [ "$(head -n 1 "$source_iotests/$seq")" == "#!/usr/bin/env python" ]; then - run_command="$PYTHON $seq" + if $python_usable; then + run_command="$PYTHON $seq" + else + run_command="false" + echo "Unsupported Python version" > $seq.notrun + fi else run_command="./$seq" fi -- 2.20.1