As discussed a while ago, switch the utils (including their tests) to
use python3 by default. While on it, drop usage of "env" to always get
the system python3 instead of a random one that happens to live
somewhere in $PATH.
In practise, this patch doesn't change much - AFAIK openSUSE, Debian and
Ubuntu already patch aa-* to use python3.
Also add a note to README to officially deprecate Python 2.x.
(I won't break Python 2.x support intentionally - unless some future
change gives me a very good reason to finally drop Python 2.x support.)
Acked-by: Seth Arnold <seth.arnold@canonical.com>
(since 2016-08-23, but the commit had to wait for the FileRule series
because it touches test-file.py)
python 3 uses only the 'str' type, while python 2 also uses 'unicode'.
This patch adds a type_is_str() function to common.py - depending on the
python version, it checks for both. This helper function is used to keep
the complexity outside of the rule classes.
The rule classes get adjusted to use type_is_str() instead of checking
for type(x) == str, which means they support both python versions.
As pointed out by Tyler, there are also some type(...) == str checks in
aare.py and rule/__init__.py which should get the same change.
Finally, add test-common.py with some tests for type_is_str().
References: https://bugs.launchpad.net/apparmor/+bug/1513880
Acked-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> for trunk and 2.10
Note: 2.10 doesn't contain SignalRule, therefore it doesn't get that
part of the patch.
