1 files changed, 0 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/bitbake b/scripts/bitbake
index a8c67bb125..dde61c405b 100755
--- a/scripts/bitbake
+++ b/scripts/bitbake
@@ -27,26 +27,6 @@ done
 [ $needpseudo = "0" ] && break
 done
 
-# Make sure we're not using python v3.x. This check can't go into
-# sanity.bbclass because bitbake's source code doesn't even pass
-# parsing stage when used with python v3, so we catch it here so we
-# can offer a meaningful error message.
-py_v3_check=`/usr/bin/env python --version 2>&1 | grep "Python 3"`
-if [ "$py_v3_check" != "" ]; then
-        echo "Bitbake is not compatible with python v3"
-        echo "Please set up python v2 as your default python interpreter"
-        exit 1
-fi
-
-# Similarly, we now have code that doesn't parse correctly with older
-# versions of Python, and rather than fixing that and being eternally
-# vigilant for any other new feature use, just check the version here.
-py_v26_check=`python -c 'import sys; print sys.version_info >= (2,6,0)'`
-if [ "$py_v26_check" != "True" ]; then
-        echo "BitBake requires Python 2.6 or later"
-        exit 1
-fi
-
 if [ ! -e conf/bblayers.conf ] ; then
     BDPRINT=""
     [ -n "$BUILDDIR" ] && BDPRINT=": $BUILDDIR"