qapi: Require ASCII in schema

Python 2 and Python 3 have a wild history of whether strings
default to ascii or unicode, where Python 3 requires checking
isinstance(foo, basestr) to cover all strings, but where that
code is not portable to Python 2.  It's simpler to just state
that we don't care about Unicode strings, and to just always
use the simpler isinstance(foo, str) everywhere.

I'm no python expert, so I'm basing it on this conversation:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-09/msg05278.html

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

diff --git a/scripts/qapi.py b/scripts/qapi.py
index d47034760dcc97a9759067bf83bd20f7135b76fc..20ee505430319d250d4eb0039dc0ddfd3075d675 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/qapi.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # QAPI helper library
 #
 # Copyright IBM, Corp. 2011
-# Copyright (c) 2013 Red Hat Inc.
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2015 Red Hat Inc.
 #
 # Authors:
 #  Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ def parse_schema(input_file):
     return exprs
 
 def parse_args(typeinfo):
-    if isinstance(typeinfo, basestring):
+    if isinstance(typeinfo, str):
         struct = find_struct(typeinfo)
         assert struct != None
         typeinfo = struct['data']