Since python3 strings are already Unicode-capable, there have no decode() function. Libguestfs content strings can be either python 2 or 3 strings, only decode them to utf-8 for python2. --- src/virtBootstrap/utils.py | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/virtBootstrap/utils.py b/src/virtBootstrap/utils.py index 6dbea87..84d1629 100644 --- a/src/virtBootstrap/utils.py +++ b/src/virtBootstrap/utils.py @@ -167,7 +167,9 @@ class BuildImage(object): self.g.mount('/dev/sda', '/') success = False if self.g.is_file('/etc/shadow'): - shadow_content = self.g.read_file('/etc/shadow').decode('utf-8') + shadow_content = self.g.read_file('/etc/shadow') + if hasattr(shadow_content, 'decode'): + shadow_content = shadow_content.decode('utf-8') shadow_content = shadow_content.split('\n') if shadow_content: # Note: 'shadow_content' is a list, pass-by-reference is used -- 2.13.2 _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list