Re: Need help getting my latest rest patches to have python3 compatibility

On Sun, 10 Mar 2019, John P. Rouillard wrote:

>   using ByteIO (in place of StringIO)

That was correct.  FieldStorage requires a file using bytes, not one using 
strings.

I've applied some general Python 3 fixes for the REST code, as needed to 
be able to get any JSON data from the REST interface at all (in a browser 
as opposed to in the testsuite) when roundup-server is using Python 3, 
and fixes for the tests to use bytes where appropriate.

There is still a failure with Python 3 that I haven't fixed:

>       self.assertEqual(json_dict['data']['type'], "<type 'str'>")
E       AssertionError: "<class 'str'>" != "<type 'str'>"
E       - <class 'str'>
E       + <type 'str'>

This relates to the different results from str(str) in Python 3 versus 
Python 2.  Either the test needs to accept both variants or the REST code 
need to do something to avoid this output depending on the Python version 
used.

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Joseph S. Myers
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