Allow using python3 for timestamps on macOS and BSD (#362)

Note that macOS 12.3 removed python2.
bazelbuild · Apr 1, 2022 · b9ec2c2 · b9ec2c2
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commit b9ec2c2
Showing 1 changed file with 6 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/tests/unittest.bash b/tests/unittest.bash
@@ -674,8 +674,12 @@ if [ "$UNAME" = "linux" ] || [[ "$UNAME" =~ msys_nt* ]]; then
     }
 else
     function timestamp() {
-      # OS X and FreeBSD do not have %N so python is the best we can do
-      python -c 'import time; print int(round(time.time() * 1000))'
+      # macOS and BSDs do not have %N, so Python is the best we can do.
+      # LC_ALL=C works around python 3.8 and 3.9 crash on macOS when the
+      # filesystem encoding is unspecified (e.g. when LANG=en_US).
+      local PYTHON=python
+      command -v python3 &> /dev/null && PYTHON=python3
+      LC_ALL=C "${PYTHON}" -c 'import time; print(int(round(time.time() * 1000)))'
     }
 fi