[OpenIndiana-discuss] meld tool/utility is broken

[Tim Mooney]

In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] meld tool/utility is broken, Predrag...:

>     x: float | None = None,
> TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for |: 'type' and 'NoneType'

I think it may be this:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76712720/typeerror-unsupported-operand-types-for-type-and-nonetype

Both meld's web site and meld's gitlab page says it only requires Python
3.4.7 or later, but that "type | None" syntax is apparently a Python 3.10+
thing.

The first answer on the stackoverflow site has a couple of workarounds
involving other modules.  You might try hack your copy to use one of them,
to see if that fixes it.

I don't know for certain if this will work, assuming you have other python
runtimes installed, you could instead try something like

 	/usr/bin/python3.14 /usr/bin/meld file1.xml file2.xml

to see if the problem goes away.

Tim
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