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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sphinx/kernel-doc.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/kernel-doc.py b/Documentation/sphinx/kernel-doc.py index 87a1332fe934..a6e170872c8a 100644 --- a/Documentation/sphinx/kernel-doc.py +++ b/Documentation/sphinx/kernel-doc.py @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ # # Authors: # Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> +# +# Please make sure this works on both python2 and python3. +# import os import subprocess @@ -75,8 +78,10 @@ class KernelDocDirective(Directive): p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, universal_newlines=True) out, err = p.communicate() - # assume the kernel sources are utf-8 - out, err = unicode(out, 'utf-8'), unicode(err, 'utf-8') + # python2 needs conversion to unicode. + # python3 with universal_newlines=True returns strings. + if sys.version_info.major < 3: + out, err = unicode(out, 'utf-8'), unicode(err, 'utf-8') if p.returncode != 0: sys.stderr.write(err) |