From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; The PyUnicode_AsUTF8 method doesn't exist prior to Python 3.3. It is also somewhat inefficient, so rewrite it to use an intermediate PyBytes object. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; --- typewrappers.c | 19 +++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/typewrappers.c b/typewrappers.c index a7a42f2..a5b562d 100644 --- a/typewrappers.c +++ b/typewrappers.c @@ -361,9 +361,10 @@ libvirt_boolUnwrap(PyObject *obj, bool *val) int libvirt_charPtrUnwrap(PyObject *obj, char **str) { -#if PY_MAJOR_VERSION < 3 - const char *ret; +#if PY_MAJOR_VERSION > 2 + PyObject *bytes; #endif + const char *ret; *str = NULL; if (!obj) { PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "unexpected type"); @@ -371,16 +372,18 @@ libvirt_charPtrUnwrap(PyObject *obj, char **str) } #if PY_MAJOR_VERSION > 2 - if (!(*str = PyUnicode_AsUTF8(obj))) + if (!(bytes = PyUnicode_AsUTF8String(obj))) return -1; + ret = PyBytes_AsString(bytes); #else ret = PyString_AsString(obj); - if (ret && - !(*str = strdup(ret))) - return -1; #endif - - return 0; + if (ret) + *str = strdup(ret); +#if PY_MAJOR_VERSION > 2 + Py_DECREF(bytes); +#endif + return ret && *str ? 0 : -1; } int libvirt_charPtrSizeUnwrap(PyObject *obj, char **str, Py_ssize_t *size) -- 1.8.3.1