From a78892c2f59d81b44ce309ac91901aeb11c28f47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 11:33:55 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] configure: allow use of python 3

Backports commit c21965a0c8b979c306e927f158257e5b0fa3a1f9 from qemu
---
 qemu/configure | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/qemu/configure b/qemu/configure
index 654e3587..8ae8b7a4 100755
--- a/qemu/configure
+++ b/qemu/configure
@@ -555,9 +555,8 @@ fi
 
 # Note that if the Python conditional here evaluates True we will exit
 # with status 1 which is a shell 'false' value.
-if ! $python -c 'import sys; sys.exit(sys.version_info < (2,4) or sys.version_info >= (3,))'; then
-  error_exit "Cannot use '$python', Python 2.4 or later is required." \
-      "Note that Python 3 or later is not yet supported." \
+if ! $python -c 'import sys; sys.exit(sys.version_info < (2,6))'; then
+  error_exit "Cannot use '$python', Python 2 >= 2.6 or Python 3 is required." \
       "Use --python=/path/to/python to specify a supported Python."
 fi