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Solution: /usr/share/gdb-peda/lib/shellcode.py SyntaxWarning: "is" with a literal.

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garg.arnav77/gdb-peda:garg.arnav77-kali/master-patch-97407 into kali/master

Syntax Warning gdb-peda 

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/usr/share/gdb-peda/lib/shellcode.py:24: SyntaxWarning: "is" with a literal. Did you mean "=="?
  if sys.version_info.major is 3:
/usr/share/gdb-peda/lib/shellcode.py:379: SyntaxWarning: "is" with a literal. Did you mean "=="?
  if pyversion is 3:

Solution

Replace "is" with '==''

In file lib/shellcode.py in lines 24 and 379

Results

[riva@Ishikawa codes]$ gdb
GNU gdb (Debian 10.1-1.7) 10.1.90.20210103-git
Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                                                                                                  
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
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