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1# This file must use Python 1.5 syntax.
2import glob
3import os
4import sys
5
6
7class check_python_version:
8
9    def __init__(self):
10        # In order to ease the migration to Python3, disable the restart logic
11        # when AUTOTEST_NO_RESTART is set. This makes it possible to run
12        # autotest locally as Python3 before any other environment is switched
13        # to Python3.
14        if os.getenv("AUTOTEST_NO_RESTART"):
15            return
16
17        # The change to prefer 2.4 really messes up any systems which have both
18        # the new and old version of Python, but where the newer is default.
19        # This is because packages, libraries, etc are all installed into the
20        # new one by default. Some things (like running under mod_python) just
21        # plain don't handle python restarting properly. I know that I do some
22        # development under ipython and whenever I run (or do anything that
23        # runs) 'import common' it restarts my shell. Overall, the change was
24        # fairly annoying for me (and I can't get around having 2.4 and 2.5
25        # installed with 2.5 being default).
26        if sys.version_info.major >= 3:
27            try:
28                # We can't restart when running under mod_python.
29                from mod_python import apache
30            except ImportError:
31                self.restart()
32
33
34    PYTHON_BIN_GLOB_STRINGS = ['/usr/bin/python2*', '/usr/local/bin/python2*']
35
36
37    def find_desired_python(self):
38        """Returns the path of the desired python interpreter."""
39        # CrOS only ever has Python 2.7 available, so pick whatever matches.
40        pythons = []
41        for glob_str in self.PYTHON_BIN_GLOB_STRINGS:
42            pythons.extend(glob.glob(glob_str))
43        return pythons[0]
44
45
46    def restart(self):
47        python = self.find_desired_python()
48        sys.stderr.write('NOTE: %s switching to %s\n' %
49                         (os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]), python))
50        sys.argv.insert(0, '-u')
51        sys.argv.insert(0, python)
52        os.execv(sys.argv[0], sys.argv)
53