Subject: Re: (unknown)

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:33:31 -0800

[email-masked] (Eric S. Raymond) writes:

> From: "Eric S. Raymond" <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:40:59 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] Add checks to Python scripts for version dependencies.
>
> ---
>  contrib/ciabot/ciabot.py           | 8 +++++++-
> ...
> diff --git a/contrib/fast-import/import-zips.py b/contrib/fast-import/import-zips.py
> index 82f5ed3..b989941 100755
> --- a/contrib/fast-import/import-zips.py
> +++ b/contrib/fast-import/import-zips.py
> @@ -9,10 +9,15 @@
>  ##  git log --stat import-zips
>  
>  from os import popen, path
> -from sys import argv, exit
> +from sys import argv, exit, hexversion
>  from time import mktime
>  from zipfile import ZipFile
>  
> +if hexversion < 0x01060000:

I am assuming that you are carefully limiting what you import from
"sys" by adding only hexversion to the import above, but then can we
refer to sys.stderr below?

> +	# The limiter is the zipfile module
> +        sys.stderr.write("import-zips.py: requires Python 1.6.0 or later.\n")
> +        sys.exit(1)
> +