Re: [PATCH 1/2] scripts/spdxcheck.py: Always open files in binary mode

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2018-12-12 at 13:14 -0500, Jeremy Cline wrote:
> It might be worth noting this fixes commit 6f4d29df66ac
> ("scripts/spdxcheck.py: make python3 compliant")

umm, how does it do that?

> and also Cc this for
> stable since 6f4d29df66ac got backported to v4.19. While that commit
> did indeed make the script work with Python 3 for piping data, it broke
> Python 2 and made its way to stable.

I think attempting to use spdxcheck on binary files
is not useful in the first place.