Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] pylibfdt: Return string instead of bytearray from getprop()

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On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 11:09:15PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> The return value is not actually mutable, so it seems more correct to
> return a string rather than a bytearray.
> 
> Suggested-by: David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Good idea, though similarly to my comment on another patch, I think
bytes() would be a better option.

> ---
> 
> Changes in v3: None
> Changes in v2: None
> 
>  pylibfdt/libfdt.i | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/pylibfdt/libfdt.i b/pylibfdt/libfdt.i
> index 2c104ac..7e915cf 100644
> --- a/pylibfdt/libfdt.i
> +++ b/pylibfdt/libfdt.i
> @@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ class Fdt:
>              quiet: Errors to ignore (empty to raise on all errors)
>  
>          Returns:
> -            Value of property as a bytearray, or -ve error number
> +            Value of property as a string, or -ve error number
>  
>          Raises:
>              FdtError if any error occurs (e.g. the property is not found)
> @@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ class Fdt:
>                                 quiet)
>          if isinstance(pdata, (int)):
>              return pdata
> -        return bytearray(pdata[0])
> +        return str(pdata[0])
>  
>      def get_phandle(self, nodeoffset):
>          """Get the phandle of a node

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