[Libguestfs] RHashtable and the python bindings

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 09:42:01AM +0100, Matthew Booth wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 19:19 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > From ba0199c487feec7f02cfc00ba3e900e6fa5ed4d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com>
> > Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 18:58:43 +0100
> > Subject: [PATCH] python: Let RHashtable be returned as a Python dict.
> > 
> > The initial proposal was suggested by Matt Booth and discussed on the
> > mailing list here:
> > 
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2013-April/msg00007.html
> > ---
> >  generator/python.ml                | 43
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> >  python/examples/create_disk.py     |  6 +++++-
> >  python/examples/guestfs-python.pod | 13 +++++++++++-
> >  python/examples/inspect_vm.py      | 19 +++++++----------
> >  python/t/010-basic.py              |  2 +-
> >  python/t/028-python-dict.py        | 34
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  python/t/060-optargs.py            |  2 +-
> >  python/t/400-events.py             |  2 +-
> >  python/t/800-explicit-close.py     |  6 +++---
> >  python/t/rhbz811650.py             |  2 +-
> >  10 files changed, 103 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 python/t/028-python-dict.py
> 
> ACK. It hadn't occurred to me to transform this in python. It's a much
> more expedient patch. It will make sense to update the C when this is
> ultimately removed, though.

Agreed.  I have just pushed this.

Rich.

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