On Mon, 16 Nov 2020, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > ipython is irrelevant to the mklog.py script, which doesn't use it. > It's what Martin was using on the command-line, but is not actually > relevant to the issue at hand.
I am aware of that, what's the point discussing this stuff? It wasn't me who started with ipython. > > In [1]: from unidiff import PatchSet > > > > In [2]: unidiff.VERSION > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > NameError Traceback (most recent call last) > > <ipython-input-3-049af7d22b51> in <module>() > > ----> 1 unidiff.VERSION > > > > NameError: name 'unidiff' is not defined > > You only imported unidiff.PatchSet, not unidiff.VERSION. Either import > that, or the whole of unidiff. I wasn't told to. FWIW I don't intend to study Python programming on this occassion as I'm quite happy with the programming languages I have already learnt by now, including many flavours of assembly, thank you very much. I would rather leave Python-fu to other people. > Without ipython: > > echo 'import unidiff ; print(unidiff.VERSION)' | python3 Well: $ echo 'import unidiff ; print(unidiff.VERSION)' | python3 0.5.2 $ and $ echo 'import unidiff ; print(unidiff.VERSION)' | python3 0.5.4 $ respectively, but I wrote it twice already in previous messages, including the original one. I now feel like talking to a call centre. :( > The contrib/mklog.py script requires Python 3, which doesn't seem > unreasonable in 2020. Its shebang makes that clear: > /usr/bin/env python3 Again, what's the point discussing it? Let's keep to the facts and those are that the script does not work with my system which is not unreasonably old (released last Sep for unidiff 0.5.4; Jan 2019 for unidiff 0.5.2) or odd (a standard Debian distribution). Either the script needs to be fixed (and I did post a suggestion; maybe either syntax works with a later version of unidiff? -- as I say I am no Python expert), preferably, to support systems like mine out of the box, or to do whatever dance is required to report any unmet requirements so as not to confuse people. Thank you for your input anyway. Maciej
