[libvirt] [PATCH] Make python objects inherit from 'object' base class

Guido Günther agx at sigxcpu.org
Sat Jan 26 21:05:51 UTC 2013


Hi,
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 01:17:32PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
> 
> As of python >= 2.2, it is recommended that all objects inherit
> from the 'object' base class. We already require python >= 2.3
> for libvirt for thread macro support, so we should follow this
> best practice.
> 
> See also
> 
>   http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4015417/python-class-inherits-object
> 
> This is motivated the patch Rich just did for libguestfs
> 
>   https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2013-January/msg00063.html

This might break applications since there's are subtle difference between
old style and new style classes:

    http://docs.python.org/release/2.5.2/ref/node33.html

I think the change is good but we might need to document this somewhere.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
> ---
>  python/generator.py | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/python/generator.py b/python/generator.py
> index f853d77..a079fc5 100755
> --- a/python/generator.py
> +++ b/python/generator.py
> @@ -1413,7 +1413,7 @@ def buildWrappers(module):
>                  classes.write("        %s.__init__(self, _obj=_obj)\n\n" % (
>                                classes_ancestor[classname]))
>              else:
> -                classes.write("class %s:\n" % (classname))
> +                classes.write("class %s(object):\n" % (classname))
>                  if classname in [ "virDomain", "virNetwork", "virInterface", "virStoragePool",
>                                    "virStorageVol", "virNodeDevice", "virSecret","virStream",
>                                    "virNWFilter" ]:
> -- 
> 1.8.1
> 
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