[Libguestfs] python 3 bindings on libguestfs

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 01:31:09PM +0000, abinaya.manikandan at wipro.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are trying to build libguestfs RPM package using SPEC file.

This is new information, and good that's how you should be building
libguestfs on RHEL or CentOS.

...
> 4. We could see python-guestfs libraries in below path,
> 
> [root at euca-172-31-15-221 site-packages]$ pwd
> /opt/libguestfs/x86_64/1.32.10/lib/python3.6/site-packages
> [root at euca-172-31-15-221 site-packages]$ ls
> guestfs.py  guestfs.pyc  guestfs.pyo
> 
> We are able to import guestfs without any issue like below:
> [root at euca-172-31-15-221 ~]$ python
> Python 3.6.0 (default, Jun  1 2017, 02:10:02)
> [GCC 4.4.4 20100726 (Red Hat 4.4.4-13)] on linux
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import guestfs
> >>>
> 
> But the issue is when we use "GuestFS" attribute like below:
> >>> guestfs.GuestFS()
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> AttributeError: module 'guestfs' has no attribute 'GuestFS'
> 
> I have tried a lot to fix the issue and also google the same but no luck.
> Please help me on this.

I'm going to guess that your Python binary is not looking in
/opt/libguestfs/... for libraries.

You could see if setting PYTHONPATH helps, ie. something like this:

  PYTHONPATH=/opt/libguestfs/x86_64/1.32.10/lib/python3.6/site-packages python

You can also print the current path from python by doing:

  >>> import sys
  >>> print (sys.path)

Rich.

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