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

[Thierry Reding]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 06:51:19PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> 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.

Agreed. However, if run without arguments the tool will walk the entire
tree and inevitably run into binary files. I realize that this is kind
of a lame way of dealing with binary files, but the alternatives would
be much more complicated and involve dealing with mimetypes and such.

Thierry

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