Unable to patch groups returned in a list

[larsks]

I am trying to remove a user from a list of groups. The code looks something like this:

groups = groupv1.get(label_selector='mylabel')
for group in groups.items:
  try:
    group.users.remove('some-user')
  except (ValueError, AttributeError):
    pass
  else:
    groupsv1.patch(body=group)

But this fails with:

  File "/home/lars/.local/share/virtualenvs/acct-manager-qCJKB4-x/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openshift/dynamic/client.py", line 89, in serialize_body
    return body.to_dict()
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable

So okay, maybe I should try passing in a dict instead:

    groupsv1.patch(body=dict(group))

But this fails with:

  [...]
  File "/home/lars/.local/share/virtualenvs/acct-manager-qCJKB4-x/lib/python3.10/site-packages/kubernetes/client/api_client.py", line 238, in sanitize_for_serialization
    for attr, _ in six.iteritems(obj.openapi_types)
  File "/home/lars/.local/share/virtualenvs/acct-manager-qCJKB4-x/lib/python3.10/site-packages/six.py", line 605, in iteritems
    return iter(d.items(**kw))
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'items'

So...maybe I should be patching the list all at once, rather than
individually:

groups = groupv1.get(label_selector='mylabel')
for group in groups.items:
  try:
    group.users.remove('some-user')
  except (ValueError, AttributeError):
    pass
groupsv1.patch(body=groups)

But this fails with:

  File "/home/lars/.local/share/virtualenvs/acct-manager-qCJKB4-x/lib/python3.10/site-packages/openshift/dynamic/client.py", line 125, in patch
    raise ValueError("name is required to patch {}.{}".format(resource.group_version, resource.kind))
ValueError: name is required to patch user.openshift.io/v1.Group

What's the correct way to patch these objects?

[larsks]

Ugh, I walked away to get coffee and came back, and now I can't reproduce the failure using dict(group), so I guess I'm closing this for now.