Re: [virt-manager PATCH] Avoid getting AttributeError when handling libvirt error

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On 02/05/2013 01:44 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 12:36:16PM +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>> On 02/05/2013 11:14 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 10:51:46PM +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>>>> My python libvirt module doesn't have VIR_ERR_* inside itself and
>>>> according to some places in the code, this was already taken care of
>>>> by using the 'getattr' with safe default.  However, there were still
>>>> some places where this wasn't handled properly, so I tried to fixed it
>>>> by adding getattr for these attributes wherever 'git grep VIR_ERR'
>>>> found it.  While on that, I took the liberty of cleaning up some
>>>> related lines that were too long.
>>>
>>> This is a libvirt bug which virt-manager shouldn't work around.
>>> The python bindings in the 1.0.2 release were broken.
>>>
>>
>> But it looks like they are broken even in the current HEAD.  I'd like
>> giving all the error handling a similar look and even though it's not
>> necessarily needed, some places use 'getattr' already.  Could you have a
>> look at my v2 and in case you still don't like it, I'll send a v3 for
>> removing the 'getattr'?
> 
> The reason some places use 'getattr' is that the code wanted to be able
> to check for a new type of error, without increasing the minimum
> required libvirt-python version. Next time the min libvirt is updated,
> then most of the getattr calls with go away, so we shouldn't be adding
> more
> 

Oh, OK, that makes sense, thanks for the explanation.

Martin

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