Cinder Client Style Commandments

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Cinder Client Specific Commandments

Use 'raise' instead of 'raise e' to preserve original traceback or exception being reraised:

except Exception as e:
    ...
    raise e  # BAD

except Exception:
    ...
    raise  # OKAY

All text within python code should be of type 'unicode'.

WRONG:

>>> s = 'foo'
>>> s
'foo'
>>> type(s)
<type 'str'>

RIGHT:

>>> u = u'foo'
>>> u
u'foo'
>>> type(u)
<type 'unicode'>

Transitions between internal unicode and external strings should always be immediately and explicitly encoded or decoded.
All external text that is not explicitly encoded (database storage, commandline arguments, etc.) should be presumed to be encoded as utf-8.

WRONG:

mystring = infile.readline() myreturnstring = do_some_magic_with(mystring) outfile.write(myreturnstring)

RIGHT:

mystring = infile.readline() mytext = s.decode('utf-8') returntext = do_some_magic_with(mytext) returnstring = returntext.encode('utf-8') outfile.write(returnstring)

Each patch should add an entry in the doc/source/index.rst file under "MASTER".
On each new release, the entries under "MASTER" will become the release notes for that release, and "MASTER" will be cleared.

The format should match existing release notes. For example, a feature:

* Add support for function foo

Or a bug fix:

.. _1241941: http://bugs.launchpad.net/python-cinderclient/+bug/1241941