From dc8f2eceecc011d8f6af8f202f501cf98dbcc35b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Chu <andy@oilshell.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2019 09:51:05 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [devtools] Remove explicit version check, now that shebangs
 are python2.

---
 build/dev.sh | 17 -----------------
 1 file changed, 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/build/dev.sh b/build/dev.sh
index ca0cf424d1..ecc9d9bd67 100755
--- a/build/dev.sh
+++ b/build/dev.sh
@@ -18,23 +18,6 @@ source test/common.sh  # R_PATH
 
 export PYTHONPATH='.:vendor/'
 
-# In some distros, 'python' is python3, which confuses first-time developers.
-# https://github.com/oilshell/oil/issues/97
-readonly PYTHON_VERSION="$(python2 --version 2>&1)"
-
-# bash weirdness: VERSION_REGEX must NOT be inline in the expression, and must
-# NOT be quoted.
-readonly VERSION_REGEX='Python (2\.7\.[0-9]+)'
-
-if [[ "${PYTHON_VERSION}" =~ $VERSION_REGEX ]]; then
-  true
-else
-  echo >&2 'FATAL: Oil dev requires Python 2.7.*'
-  echo >&2 "But you have '${PYTHON_VERSION}'"
-  echo >&2 'Hint: Use virtualenv to create a Python 2.7 environment.'
-  exit 1
-fi
-
 ubuntu-deps() {
   # python-dev: for pylibc
   # gawk: used by spec-runner.sh for the special match() function.