[libvirt] [PATCH python] libvirtaio: Fix compat with python 3.7

Pavel Hrdina phrdina at redhat.com
Wed Jun 27 11:50:10 UTC 2018


On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 02:35:28PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> In python 3.7, async is now a keyword, so this throws a syntax error:
> 
>   File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/site-packages/libvirtaio.py", line 49
>     from asyncio import async as ensure_future
>                             ^
>   SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> 
> Switch to getattr trickery to accomplish the same goal
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com>
> ---
>  libvirtaio.py | 10 ++++++----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> If we don't care about python3 < 3.4.4 compat, we can just do
> 
>   from asyncio import ensure_future
> 
> diff --git a/libvirtaio.py b/libvirtaio.py
> index 1c432dd..9d517e6 100644
> --- a/libvirtaio.py
> +++ b/libvirtaio.py
> @@ -43,10 +43,12 @@ import warnings
>  
>  import libvirt
>  
> -try:
> -    from asyncio import ensure_future
> -except ImportError:
> -    from asyncio import async as ensure_future
> +# python < 3.4.4: we want 'async'
> +# python >= 3.4.4 < 3.7, we want 'ensure_future'

This is slightly misleading, I would remove the ' < 3.7' part as we
need 'ensure_future' even for that versions.  The following explanation
is good enough.

> +# python >= 3.7, 'async' is a reserved keyword, so we can't import it
> +ensure_future = getattr(asyncio, "ensure_future", None)
> +if not ensure_future:
> +    ensure_future = getattr(asyncio, "async")

Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina at redhat.com>
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