Bug 1319879

Summary: using pyudev wildcard import does not work at top level
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: mulhern <amulhern>
Component: python-pyudevAssignee: Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Version: 7.2CC: jkejda, thozza
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Description mulhern 2016-03-21 18:00:40 UTC 
Description of problem:

In interpreter,

> from pyudev import *

causes exception:

>>> from pyudev import *
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: Item in ``from list'' not a string

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

0.16.1 through current (0.19)

How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use wildcard import at pyudev top level, observe exception.

Actual results:

TypeError raised.

Expected results:

Exposed names successfully imported.

Additional info:

Low priority because the work-around is just to specify the name to be imported,
and that is generally considered better practice anyway.

The problem is because pyudev treats all literal strings as unicode.
Comment 2 mulhern 2016-03-22 12:23:28 UTC 
I'll take this until I manage to fix it upstream.
Comment 3 mulhern 2016-04-29 21:24:27 UTC 
This is fixed in version 0.20. I wouldn't recommend back-porting the fix. There were a lot of text changes in a lot of import lines, the patch would not apply cleanly.
Comment 7 Red Hat Bugzilla Rules Engine 2018-11-16 15:23:43 UTC 
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