[virt-tools-list] [virt-bootstrap] [PATCH] test: python 2/3 compatability

Radostin Stoyanov rstoyanov1 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 5 08:35:54 UTC 2017


The function read_file() from the python bindings of libguestfs
returns value of type "str" Python 2 and type "bytes" for Python 3.

To use split() we need to convert the type 'bytes' into 'str' using
decode().
---
 tests/docker_source.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tests/docker_source.py b/tests/docker_source.py
index 9090988..71e3e40 100644
--- a/tests/docker_source.py
+++ b/tests/docker_source.py
@@ -181,7 +181,9 @@ class TestQcow2DockerSource(Qcow2ImageAccessor):
         cmd = ['qemu-img', 'info', image_path]
         proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
         output, _ignore = proc.communicate()
-        return output.decode('utf-8').split('\n')
+        if hasattr(output, 'decode'):
+            output = output.decode('utf-8')
+        return output.split('\n')
 
     def call_bootstrap(self):
         """
-- 
2.13.5




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