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Hi,

The next oslo.context release including the following change (still 
under review) might break the voting Python 3 gate of your project:

    https://review.openstack.org/#/c/250731/

Please try to run Python 3 tests of your project with this change. I 
already ran the tests on Python 3 of the following projects:

- ceilometer
- cinder
- heat
- neutron
- nova


The type of the request_id attribute of oslo_context.RequestContext was 
changed from Unicode (str) to bytes on Python 3 in April "to fix an unit 
test". According to the author of the change, it was a mistake.

The request_id is a string looks like 'req-83a6...', 'req-' followed by 
an UUID. On Python 3, it's annoying to manipulate a bytes string. For 
example, print(request_id) writes b'req-83a6...' instead of req-83a6..., 
request_id.startswith('req-83a6...') raises a TypeError, etc.

I propose to modify request_id type again to make it a Unicode string to 
fix oslo.log (don't log b'req-...' anymore, but req-...):

    https://review.openstack.org/#/c/250731/

It looks like it doesn't break services, but only one specific unit test 
duplicated in some projects. The unit test relies on the exact 
request_id type, it looks like: request_id.startswith(b'req-'). I fixed 
this unit test in Glance, Neutron and oslo.middlware to accept bytes and 
Unicode request_id.

I also searched for b'req-' in http://codesearch.openstack.org/ to find 
all projects relying on the exact request_id type.

Victor