Unable to run test-suite on python3.9

On attempting to run the test-suite with python3.9 , the following bug was encountered:

(.venv) alberto@thinkpad $ ansible-playbook main.yml --extra-vars "@./params.yml" | tee output.log
ERROR! Unexpected Exception, this is probably a bug: Failed to detect selinux python bindings at ['/usr/local/lib64/python3.9/site-packages', '/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages', '/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages']
the full traceback was:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/alberto/k8s-storage-tests/.venv/bin/ansible-playbook", line 92, in <module>
    mycli = getattr(__import__("ansible.cli.%s" % sub, fromlist=[myclass]), myclass)
  File "/home/alberto/k8s-storage-tests/.venv/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/ansible/cli/__init__.py", line 24, in <module>
    from ansible.parsing.dataloader import DataLoader
  File "/home/alberto/k8s-storage-tests/.venv/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/ansible/parsing/dataloader.py", line 17, in <module>
    from ansible.module_utils.basic import is_executable
  File "/home/alberto/k8s-storage-tests/.venv/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/ansible/module_utils/basic.py", line 77, in <module>
    import selinux
  File "/home/alberto/k8s-storage-tests/.venv/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/selinux/__init__.py", line 106, in <module>
    check_system_sitepackages()
  File "/home/alberto/k8s-storage-tests/.venv/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/selinux/__init__.py", line 102, in check_system_sitepackages
    raise Exception(
Exception: Failed to detect selinux python bindings at ['/usr/local/lib64/python3.9/site-packages', '/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages', '/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages']

(.venv) alberto@thinkpad $ python -V
Python 3.9.16

It was not so for version 3.6:


(.venv36) alberto@thinkpad $ ansible-playbook main.yml --extra-vars "@./params.yml" | tee output.log
/home/alberto/k8s-storage-tests/.venv36/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/ansible/parsing/vault/__init__.py:44: CryptographyDeprecationWarning: Python 3.6 is no longer supported by the Python core team. Therefore, support for it is deprecated in cryptography. The next release of cryptography will remove support for Python 3.6.
from cryptography.exceptions import InvalidSignature
[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that
the implicit localhost does not match 'all'

PLAY [localhost] ***

TASK [ocp login using creds] *** skipping: [localhost]

TASK [ocp login using token] *** changed: [localhost]

TASK [debug] *** skipping: [localhost]

TASK [debug] *** ok: [localhost] => { "login_token.stdout_lines": [ "WARNING: Using insecure TLS client config. Setting this option is not supported!", "", "Logged into \"https://api.ocp-d.cpst-lab.ibm.com:6443\" as \"kube:admin\" using the token provided.", "", "You have access to 83 projects, the list has been suppressed. You can list all projects with 'oc projects'", "", "Using project \"default\"." ] } . . .

(.venv36) alberto@thinkpad $ python -V Python 3.6.8

- Nor for version `3.10`:

(.venv310) alberto@thinkpad $ ansible-playbook main.yml --extra-vars "@./params.yml" | tee output.log [WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost does not match 'all'

PLAY [localhost] ***

TASK [ocp login using creds] *** skipping: [localhost]

TASK [ocp login using token] *** changed: [localhost]

TASK [debug] *** skipping: [localhost]

TASK [debug] *** ok: [localhost] => { "login_token.stdout_lines": [ "WARNING: Using insecure TLS client config. Setting this option is not supported!", "", "Logged into \"https://api.ocp-d.cpst-lab.ibm.com:6443\" as \"kube:admin\" using the token provided.", "", "You have access to 84 projects, the list has been suppressed. You can list all projects with 'oc projects'", "", "Using project \"default\"." ] }

TASK [Storage Readiness] *** [WARNING]: Collection kubernetes.core does not support Ansible version 2.10.17

TASK [storage-readiness : Create namespace storage-tests if not present] ***

. . .

(.venv310) alberto@thinkpad $ python -V Python 3.10.9

This might be a problem with selinux on my system somehow:

(.venv) alberto@thinkpad $ python
Python 3.9.16 (main, May 31 2023, 12:21:58) 
[GCC 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-18)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import selinux
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/alberto/k8s-storage-tests/.venv/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/selinux/__init__.py", line 106, in <module>
    check_system_sitepackages()
  File "/home/alberto/k8s-storage-tests/.venv/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/selinux/__init__.py", line 102, in check_system_sitepackages
    raise Exception(
Exception: Failed to detect selinux python bindings at ['/usr/local/lib64/python3.9/site-packages', '/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages', '/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages']

I'm running RHEL 8.8:


(.venv) alberto@thinkpad $ cat /etc/os-release 
NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux"
VERSION="8.8 (Ootpa)"
ID="rhel"
ID_LIKE="fedora"
VERSION_ID="8.8"
PLATFORM_ID="platform:el8"
PRETTY_NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 (Ootpa)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos"
HOME_URL="https://www.redhat.com/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"

REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8" REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=8.8 REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Red Hat Enterprise Linux" REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="8.8"

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Unable to run test-suite on python3.9 #20