[mythtv-users] Question on python dependency

[John Pilkington]

On 09/02/2020 13:58, Bill Meek wrote:
> On 2/9/20 7:24 AM, Tom Dexter wrote:
>> I'm running MythTV under Gentoo. For several reasons I'm staying on
>> 29.1 for now. Looking forward to the EOL of python 2, and the fact
>> that 29.1 only supports version 2, I wanted to verify something
>> regarding the python dependency.
>>
>> Am I correct that the only python dependency is for the python
>> bindings, and that if I'm not using the bindings or any third party
>> scripts that use them, that MythTV itself doesn't otherwise require
>> it? Just wanted to make sure on that.
> 
> Short answer, no.
> 
> Things like the Hardware Profiler and the metadata grabber use the
> bindings and run under v2 or v3. find_orphans.py uses the bindings
> and its Wiki has been updated (I think that would count as a 3rd
> party script.)
> 
> I don't speak Gentoo, but if that means it builds from source, then
> at configure time you'd have to add the --python=python2 switch. Or,
> perhaps just --python=python if that's the correct executable name.
> 
> If that switch isn't used, then the default (python3) will be used.
> 
MythArchive DVD creation uses mythburn.py which was python2. The version 
in master and v31 has been updated and might perhaps be a drop-in 
replacement in earlier versions;  I haven't tried that.

John P