Python can be built with either UCS2 or UCS4 support. When built
with UCS2 the python related surrogate pairs tests cannot pass.
This commit handles this situation more gracefully.
These initial bindings pass a few hundred of the corresponding tests
for C implementations of various bits of the Open vSwitch library API.
The poorest part of them is actually the Python IDL interface in
ovs.db.idl, which has not received enough attention yet. It appears
to work, but it doesn't yet support writes (transactions) and it is
difficult to use. I hope to improve it as it becomes clear what
semantics Python applications actually want from an IDL.
The \" escape is not part of POSIX, but it is a common extension. The
dash shell's built-in "printf" implementation does not include this
extension, which caused the testsuite to be generated incorrectly if it
is used as the default shell (as it is on newer versions of Debian and
Ubuntu).
However, there's no reason to use a backslash here at all, so just omit
it.
The JSON syntax for strings is very reasonable. An upcoming commit will
have a need for a string parser, so make the JSON string parser available
for that.
Also, this change improves the error message for strings that end in the
middle of a \u sequence, so update the tests to match.
The test for whether a real number was outside the valid range was
imprecise and failed at the edge of the real range. This commit changes
the code to use the C library's strtod(), which presumably does better.
