[Python-Dev] RE: Somebody stopped running tests? (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@home.com
Fri, 10 Aug 2001 19:17:38 -0400

[Tim said]

Over the last 12 hours, 4 tests started failing on Windows:

4 tests failed: testdescr testfuture testgenerators testscope Would someone on Linux please confirm or deny it's not unique to Windows? I don't want to spend a lot of time tracking these down if the responsible parties see them on their boxes too.

But only in release mode. In a debug build, these pass. This strongly suggests a change "somewhere" that accidentally relies on an uninitialized value. Under the release build, I get oodles of bogus warnings related to scope, like

../lib/test/test_scope.py:401: SyntaxWarning: local name 'x' in 'f1' shadows use of 'x' as global in nested scope 'f2'

so best guess is it's Jeremy's recent future-flag fiddling patches.