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To prevent regressions, especially with generated code, we need to have test coverage of more APIs. This starts off with coverage for object creation for all object types supported by the test driver currently. This exercises constructors which have been broken several times in the past. Related https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt-python/-/issues/4 Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Libvirt Python Binding README
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This package provides a python binding to the libvirt.so,
libvirt-qemu.so and libvirt-lxc.so library APIs.
It is written to build against any version of libvirt that
is 0.9.11 or newer.
This code is distributed under the terms of the LGPL version
2 or later.
The module can be built by following the normal python module
build process
python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install
or to install as non-root
python setup.py build
python setup.py install --user
If python-nose is installed, you can test the package with
python setup.py test
A makefile shim is provided so that you can do
make && make check
rather than directly invoking setup.py.
As of libvirt 1.2.6, it is possible to develop against an uninstalled
libvirt.git checkout, by setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH
environment variables to point into that libvirt tree; you can even
automate this by using libvirt's run script:
/path/to/libvirt/run python setup.py build
Patches for this code should be sent to the main libvirt
development mailing list
http://libvirt.org/contact.html#email
To send patches, it is strongly recommended to use the
'git send-email' command.
Make sure the mails mention that the patch is for the python
binding. This can be done by setting a config parameter in the
local git checkout
git config format.subjectprefix "PATCH python"