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[Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

as probably known Debian is planning to get Python2 removed within the
next planned stable release.

This requires no hard dependencies on Python2 of course in all related
packages.

The master branch (and of course also the branch 5.1) has still some
Python scripts which do have a shebang that is hard wired to the python2
binaries.

> $ for file in `find -type f -name "*.py"`; do if head -1 $file | grep -e python2 -e /python; then echo found in $file; fi ;done
> #!/usr/bin/env python2.7
> found in ./pcbnew/python/examples/createFPC40.py
> #!/usr/bin/env python2
> found in ./scripts/ddr3_length_match.py
> #!/usr/bin/python
> found in ./scripts/test_plugin.py
> #!/usr/bin/python
> found in ./scripts/lib_convert.py
> #!/usr/bin/python
> found in ./scripts/test_kicad_plugin.py

Any plans to convert these files to at least a shebang of
'#!/usr/bin/env python' and a compatibility so the scripts can also be
used within a Python3 interpreter?

KiCad still has some other (indirect) dependencies on Python2 which will
also needed to get resolved, but that's another story.

-- 
Regards
Carsten Schoenert