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Connor Osborn commented on LIBCLOUD-306:
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Ran into this issue, and it got the better of my curiosity. The cause is that
libcloud doesn't have python 2 compatible {{__repr__}} methods. In python 2,
the {{repr }}builtin expects a {{__repr__}} method which returns an ascii
string (or something coercible to an ascii string). It's required because
{{repr}} will translate the result of {{X.__repr__() }}to ascii.
In the case of
[Node.__repr__|[https://github.com/apache/libcloud/blob/408caa9c95a197578baede0a5a1476e9201486e7/libcloud/compute/base.py#L260-L266]|https://github.com/apache/libcloud/blob/408caa9c95a197578baede0a5a1476e9201486e7/libcloud/compute/base.py#L260-L266].],
if the node's name contains characters outside of ascii, then whenever
{{repr(node)}} is called the unicode string returned from {{__repr__}} will
fail to be encoded as ascii.
This gets more complicated if you try and support python 3, because python 3's
{{__repr__}} should always do the opposite - return unicode strings.
The builtin {{str}} has all the same caveats.
This can also easily be replicated by stubbing out a simple class:
{code:java}
class Foo:
def __repr__(self):
return u'\xe0'
> repr(Foo())
> str(Foo()){code}
> XML response with utf-8 charset break thing with python 2
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: LIBCLOUD-306
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD-306
> Project: Libcloud
> Issue Type: Bug
> Environment: ubuntu 12.04, python 2.7, opennebula 3.8
> Reporter: Guillaume ZITTA
> Priority: Critical
> Attachments: debug.log, test_utf.py, utf-8_python2.patch,
> utf-8_python2_xml.workaround.patch
>
>
> We have an opennebula with French accents in networks names.
> Listing networks leads to a crash because of these accents in the XML
> response of the cloud.
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