From abb1d466364f74adfcf3c985b92673285fd32e44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:09:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] python: Inherit from 'object' base class.

This fixes the following Debian bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=698771

For an overview, see this question and the links from there:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4015417/python-class-inherits-object
---
 README              | 2 +-
 generator/python.ml | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 28db6c584..0b207a345 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ To build language bindings:
 
 - Perl if you want to build the perl bindings (optional)
 
-- Python if you want to build the python bindings (optional)
+- Python >= 2.2 if you want to build the python bindings (optional)
 
 - Ruby, rake if you want to build the ruby bindings (optional)
 
diff --git a/generator/python.ml b/generator/python.ml
index 8752fd3c9..0b0a79cbe 100644
--- a/generator/python.ml
+++ b/generator/python.ml
@@ -662,7 +662,7 @@ import libguestfsmod
 class ClosedHandle(ValueError):
     pass
 
-class GuestFS:
+class GuestFS(object):
     \"\"\"Instances of this class are libguestfs API handles.\"\"\"
 
     def __init__ (self, environment=True, close_on_exit=True):