+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #693306 +++ Description of problem: I'm using a network proxy to call libguestfs' python interface (specifically: rpyc), and sfdisk rejects its list look-alike It can be solved very simply by changing the code like: - return libguestfsmod.sfdisk (self._o, device, cyls, heads, sectors, lines) + return libguestfsmod.sfdisk (self._o, device, cyls, heads, sectors, list(lines)) It won't affect existing code, and it will accept any iterable instead of throwing a RuntimeError. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: --- Additional comment from pm-rhel on 2011-04-04 05:52:01 EDT --- Since this issue was entered in bugzilla, the release flag has been set to ? to ensure that it is properly evaluated for this release. --- Additional comment from pm-rhel on 2011-04-04 05:53:17 EDT --- Since RHEL 6.1 External Beta has begun, and this bug remains unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as exception or blocker. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#list
This commit appears to work for me: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=commitdiff;h=afa17809599f3ebc82c3feef025ca812fb26c9fe It changes the generated code something like this: [...] @@ -1771,6 +1772,7 @@ u"""This creates an LVM volume group called "volgroup" from the non-empty list of physical volumes "physvols". """ + physvols = list (physvols) return libguestfsmod.vgcreate (self._o, volgroup, physvols) def lvcreate (self, logvol, volgroup, mbytes): @@ -1815,6 +1817,7 @@ This command is dangerous. Without careful use you can easily destroy all your data. """ + lines = list (lines) return libguestfsmod.sfdisk (self._o, device, cyls, heads, sectors, lines) def write_file (self, path, content, size): [...]
Fix will be included in stable branch version 1.8.5.