I have the following error when running test_fileio on AIX: ====================================================================== FAIL: testAbles (test.test_fileio.OtherFileTests) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/san_cis/home/cis/.buildbot/python-aix6/3.x.phenix.xlc/build/Lib/test/test_fileio.py", line 269, in testAbles self.assertEqual(f.seekable(), False) AssertionError: True != False ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 34 tests in 0.032s FAILED (failures=1) I haven't investigated yet.
Some AIX systems have seekable /dev/tty, as is the case here and in , and on my system too. There is already an exemption in test_fileio.py for systems that have a seekable /dev/tty. AIX just needs to be exempt too. (from my experience, AIX and Solaris behave similarly in many cases, so it makes sense to add aix next to sunos). I'm submitting a patch to fix this test case on AIX.
I see that the test pass on AIX, on Python 2.7 and Python 3.6 buildbots, so I close the issue. This issue was opened 4 years ago. The test is now skipped on many platforms: if sys.platform != "win32": try: f = self.FileIO("/dev/tty", "a") except OSError: # When run in a cron job there just aren't any # ttys, so skip the test. This also handles other # OS'es that don't support /dev/tty. pass else: self.assertEqual(f.readable(), False) self.assertEqual(f.writable(), True) if sys.platform != "darwin" and \ 'bsd' not in sys.platform and \ not sys.platform.startswith('sunos'): # Somehow /dev/tty appears seekable on some BSDs self.assertEqual(f.seekable(), False) self.assertEqual(f.isatty(), True) f.close() (I'm not 100% sure that the line was this f.seekable() check.)
