possible bug with pyvmomi 6, python 3.x and unicode

Hello,

When trying to modify network configuration of a vm under a vcenter with french locale by defautl, a SOAP error occur only if using python 3 with latest pyvmomi.

It does not append with python 2.7.x, with the same pyvmomi version.

I’m under CentOS 6 and tried with

• Python 3.4 from RedHat SCL : SOAP fault
• Python 3.5 from Miniconda : SOAP fault
• Python 2.7 from CentOS 6 : OK (but with no way to bypass the urrllib3 SSL warning)
• Python 2.7 from Miniconda : OK

The only difference if found between python 2.7 and 3 is, when I do

print(device_change)

is that the network label appears in unicode python 2.7.x

label = u'Adaptateur r\xe9seau 1',

And not with python 3.x

label = 'Adaptateur réseau 1',

You’ll find below the SOAP error.

Tell me If I could help, as we must not be so many with french vcenter 😉.

Regards,

Caught vmodl fault : 
Error returned by expat parser: not well-formed (invalid token)

while parsing serialized value of type string
at line 3, column 200

while parsing property "label" of static type string

while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.Description
at line 3, column 188

while parsing property "deviceInfo" of static type Description

while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.vm.device.VirtualE1000
at line 3, column 141

while parsing property "device" of static type VirtualDevice

while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.vm.device.VirtualDeviceSpec
at line 3, column 100

while parsing property "deviceChange" of static type ArrayOfVirtualDeviceConfigSpec

while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.vm.ConfigSpec
at line 3, column 94

while parsing call information for method ReconfigVM_Task
at line 3, column 14

while parsing SOAP body
at line 3, column 0

while parsing SOAP envelope
at line 2, column 0

while parsing HTTP request for method reconfigure
on object of type vim.VirtualMachine
at line 1, column 0

[tianhao64]

I just created a new release: 6.0.0.2016.4. This issue should be fixed.

[tianhao64]

@lsioctl I think you were on 6.0.0 since the ssoContext is present. The version in setup.py is wrong. I will fix it in coming release.