[Python-Dev] test_re fails with re==pre (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@beopen.com
Mon, 31 Jul 2000 22:32:18 -0500

Testre now works fine if re is sre, but it still fails if re is pre.

Is this an artifact of the test harness or is there still some sort of incompatibility lurking in there?

It's because the tests are actually broken for sre: it prints a bunch of "=== Failed incorrectly ..." messages. We added these as "expected output" to the test/output/test_re file. The framework just notices there's a difference and blames pre.

Effbot has promised a new SRE "real soon now" ...

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.pythonlabs.com/~guido/)