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Daniel P. Berrangé d5c5d8af45 python: mark regex strings with 'r' prefix
When writing regexes special regex matches like "\d" can get
misinterpreted as normal string escape sequences:

docs/apibuild.py:1359:51: W605 invalid escape sequence '\d'
                        value = value + re.sub("^(\d+)U$", "\\1", token[1])
                                                  ^
docs/apibuild.py:2134:31: W605 invalid escape sequence '\('
                m = re.match("\(?1<<(\d+)\)?", info[0])
                              ^
docs/apibuild.py:2134:38: W605 invalid escape sequence '\d'
                m = re.match("\(?1<<(\d+)\)?", info[0])
                                     ^
docs/apibuild.py:2134:42: W605 invalid escape sequence '\)'
                m = re.match("\(?1<<(\d+)\)?", info[0])
                                         ^

To avoid this probem all regexes should use the r"...." syntax for their
strings, which disables normal string escape sequences.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2019-11-11 14:24:19 +00:00
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README.md

Build Status CII Best Practices

Libvirt API for virtualization

Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.

For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.

Layered packages provide bindings of the libvirt C API into other languages including Python, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, OCaml, as well as mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.

Further information about the libvirt project can be found on the website:

https://libvirt.org

License

The libvirt C API is distributed under the terms of GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 (or later). Some parts of the code that are not part of the C library may have the more restrictive GNU General Public License, version 2.0 (or later). See the files COPYING.LESSER and COPYING for full license terms & conditions.

Installation

Libvirt uses the GNU Autotools build system, so in general can be built and installed with the usual commands, however, we mandate to have the build directory different than the source directory. For example, to build in a manner that is suitable for installing as root, use:

$ mkdir build && cd build
$ ../configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
$ make
$ sudo make install

While to build & install as an unprivileged user

$ mkdir build && cd build
$ ../configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
$ make
$ make install

The libvirt code relies on a large number of 3rd party libraries. These will be detected during execution of the configure script and a summary printed which lists any missing (optional) dependencies.

Contributing

The libvirt project welcomes contributions in many ways. For most components the best way to contribute is to send patches to the primary development mailing list. Further guidance on this can be found on the website:

https://libvirt.org/contribute.html

Contact

The libvirt project has two primary mailing lists:

Further details on contacting the project are available on the website:

https://libvirt.org/contact.html