Re: [PULL 00/44] Python patches

[John Snow]

On 6/1/21 6:36 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Sun, 30 May 2021 at 20:22, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 5/30/21 3:09 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > > Fails to build on my machine that runs the BSD VMs, apparently
> > > before it gets to the point of launching the VM:
>
> > When I have seen this error message in the past, it has been because of
> > using a new Python version and it gets confused reading stale cached
> > information generated from an older interpreter.
>
> This seems like a bug in Python...

Yes. I don't know why it's like that either...

> > Can you do me a favor and delete any __pycache__ folders and/or any
> > *.pyc files that might be hiding in your tree and/or build folders and
> > try running it again?
>
> I tried that, and it does seem to make more progress. It now
> fails with:

One of the acceptance test patches causes this, I've squashed in a fixup 
and have re-sent the PR.

Thanks,
--js