aexpect: Version 1.8.0

[ldoktor]

Fixes: #127

[ldoktor]

@pevogam any objections?

[pevogam]

None at all 🎉

[pevogam]

I am wondering if everything is ok with the release since in one of our CI-s I see this:

 Building wheels for collected packages: aexpect
  Building editable for aexpect (pyproject.toml): started
  Building editable for aexpect (pyproject.toml): finished with status 'done'
  Created wheel for aexpect: filename=aexpect-1.8.0-0.editable-py3-none-any.whl size=12823 sha256=199358c7ef5833d4ead2f0022fb29fd7fcbc82fd11506efbe113b8d990988e40
  Stored in directory: /tmp/pip-ephem-wheel-cache-qf6so415/wheels/f7/d6/6d/8c10e4c5944f7768a448f0d7e7751471e0f52853cf93fadb9e

followed by lots of failing tests like

Failed to load plugin from module "avocado_vt.plugins.vt_list_guests": ModuleNotFoundError("No module named 'pipes'") :
File "/home/runner/work/avocado-i2n/avocado-i2n/avocado-libs/avocado/core/extension_manager.py", line 95, in __init__
  plugin = ep.load()
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.13.5/x64/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2777, in load
  return self.resolve()
         ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.13.5/x64/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2783, in resolve
  module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
File "/home/runner/work/avocado-i2n/avocado-i2n/avocado-vt-libs/avocado_vt/plugins/vt_list_guests.py", line 7, in <module>
  from ..loader import guest_listing
File "/home/runner/work/avocado-i2n/avocado-i2n/avocado-vt-libs/avocado_vt/loader.py", line 25, in <module>
  from virttest import cartesian_config, data_dir, standalone_test, storage
File "/home/runner/work/avocado-i2n/avocado-i2n/avocado-vt-libs/virttest/storage.py", line 22, in <module>
  from virttest import (
  ...<15 lines>...
  )
File "/home/runner/work/avocado-i2n/avocado-i2n/avocado-vt-libs/virttest/ceph.py", line 17, in <module>
  from virttest import error_context, utils_misc, utils_numeric
File "/home/runner/work/avocado-i2n/avocado-i2n/avocado-vt-libs/virttest/utils_misc.py", line 33, in <module>
  import aexpect
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.13.5/x64/lib/python3.13/site-packages/aexpect/__init__.py", line 35, in <module>
  from . import remote
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.13.5/x64/lib/python3.13/site-packages/aexpect/remote.py", line 50, in <module>
  import pipes
  ```

[pevogam]

All this happens strictly on Python 3.13 variant, could it be that we produce different wheel for it? I will also investigate some caching issue in https://github.com/pevogam/avocado-i2n/actions/runs/16833894277/job/47688330984 of course.

[pevogam]

Ah false alarm, this somehow worked before but now pulled the wrong aexpect 1.7.0 which is incompatible with Python 3.13. Sorry for the noise!

[ldoktor]

Uff, thanks for the confirmation :-)