[Libvirt-announce] Release of libvirt-python-1.2.1

I also pushed a new release of libvirt python, it is available at: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/python/ contains a few fixes and a number of improvement especially toward portability and compatibility with python3: Features: - Add python3 to the automated build and RPM (Daniel P. Berrange) - Added python binding for the new network events API (Cédric Bosdonnat) Portability: - Rewrite libvirt_charPtrUnwrap to work with Python 3.0->3.2 (Daniel P. Berrange) - sanitytest: Fix libvirtError class handling for Python 2.4 (Daniel P. Berrange) - override: Fix native module registration to work with Python3 (Daniel P. Berrange) - generator: Don't use 'list' as a variable name (Daniel P. Berrange) Bug fixes: - virStream.sendAll() fix raising an undeclared var (Doug Goldstein) - Fix return type in override method for virStreamRecv (Daniel P. Berrange) - Don't free passed in args in libvirt_charPtrWrap / libvirt_charPtrSizeWrap (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix use of virDomainEventRegister in python bindings (Daniel P. Berrange) Improvements: - Add space after comma for consistency with code style (Doug Goldstein) - define __GNUC_PREREQ macro before using it (Doug Goldstein) - Skip network event callbacks in sanity test (Daniel P. Berrange) - sanitytest: remove use of string.lower() (Daniel P. Berrange) - sanitytest: Fix broken comparison between int and string (Daniel P. Berrange) - override: Switch virStreamSend wrapper to use libvirt_charPtrSizeUnwrap (Daniel P. Berrange) - override: Conditionalize use of PyString_Check and PyInt_Check (Daniel P. Berrange) - typewrappers: PyInt/PyLong merge for Python3 (Daniel P. Berrange) - typewrappers: Replace use of PyString class (Daniel P. Berrange) - override: Replace PyInt_AsLong with helper (Daniel P. Berrange) - override: Replace Py{Int,Long}_FromLong with helpers (Daniel P. Berrange) - override: Replace PyString_AsString with libvirt_charPtrUnwrap (Daniel P. Berrange) - override: Replace PyString_FromString with libvirt_constcharPtrWrap (Daniel P. Berrange) - examples: Ensure we write bytes to the self-pipe (Daniel P. Berrange) - examples: Invoke print("...") instead of print "..." (Daniel P. Berrange) - Added python binding for the new network events API (Cédric Bosdonnat) - test: Invoke print("...") instead of print "..." (Doug Goldstein) - override: Fix exception handling syntax (Doug Goldstein) - generator: Sort enums and functions when generating code (Daniel P. Berrange) - generator: Remove use of string.replace and string.find functions (Daniel P. Berrange) - generator: Update to use sort() 'key' param (Daniel P. Berrange) - generator: Remove use of 'has_key' function (Daniel P. Berrange) - Update exception catching in generated code (Doug Goldstein) - generator: Support exceptions in Python 2 and 3 (Doug Goldstein) - setup: Drop unused exception variable (Doug Goldstein) - generator: Cast iterators to a list() explicitly (Daniel P. Berrange) - Revert "Optimize callback lookup in event handlers" (Daniel P. Berrange) - generator: Invoke print("...") instead of print "..." (Daniel P. Berrange) - generator: Remove string.lower(XXX) with XXX.lower() (Daniel P. Berrange) - Optimize callback lookup in event handlers (Daniel P. Berrange) - setup: Use user requested python binary (Doug Goldstein) Cleanup: - Revert accidental change to exception handling syntax (Daniel P. Berrange) Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release ! Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Open Source and Standards, Red Hat veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/