All of the negative Python OVSDB tests were failing on Python 2.6 because
"%s\n" % e yielded the empty string on that version of Python. In turn,
that was because ovs.db.error.Error.__unicode__ was being called instead of
ovs.db.error.Error.__str__. I'm puzzled why that was happening, but this
commit fixes it and also seems like a small code cleanup.
Peter Balland helped me gain some insight on this problem.
CC: Peter Balland <peter@nicira.com>
CC: Reid Price <reid@nicira.com>
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.
