Christian Clauss

[`SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input`](https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/search?q=SyntaxError%3A+Unexpected+end+of+JSON+input&type=issues) like #2388

> npm ERR! gyp info using [email protected] [Current version is 8](https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/releases), not 3! Plus deprecated node-sass. https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/tree/master/docs#readme

I too doubt that these changes could effect the installation of https://github.com/chef/chef-dk You could make a whitespace change to force Travis to run again.

Yes... [This Travis job is running on Trusty](https://travis-ci.org/travis-ci/travis-cookbooks/jobs/572239413#L19-L20) which is EOL travis-ci/docs-travis-ci-com#2449 so [Chef no longer builds for Trusty](https://github.com/chef/chef-dk/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v417-2019-07-09) and seems to have dropped support for it from their downloads:...

https://changelog.travis-ci.com/the-default-python-version-for-your-builds-is-now-3-6-97935

Correct. If __language: python__ is _not_ set the __Xenial__ defaults to __python__ being legacy Python.

@takluyver Could you please rebase? Now that the Python 2 EOL date has passed the last version of Python 2 (v2.7.18) has been released, it is time to default pip...

For `bytes`, I would normally use `io.BytesIO()` or `memoryview()` instead of `io.StringIO()`.

my_string.encode() --> bytes my_bytes.decode() --> str

@jjjake Please approve the GitHub Actions so the tests are run.