[Python-Dev] New test failure on Windows (original) (raw)

Gary Herron gherron@islandtraining.com
Thu, 24 Apr 2003 19:56:49 -0700

On Thursday 24 April 2003 06:51 pm, Guido van Rossum wrote:

I think I understand the problem, and I've checked something in that makes the test pass, by insisting that the match raise RuntimeError with a specific error message. This is what was tested before; that particular error message was part of the expected output in Lib/test/output/testre, which is now no longer needed and which I have hence deleted.

Looks good.

Perhaps test_re should be (or should have been) phased out. Test_sre makes many of the same tests (including today's offending one), as well as many new ones, and both run all the many old test from re_test. It must be a (historical) quirk that they both exist. It's mostly a waste to run both, and having two is a maintenance hassle, underscored by the fact that Skip has choosen the less important one of the two (IMHO) to modernize.

It's not a high priority, but perhaps I'll look at straightening things out in the (somewhat distant) future.

Gary Herron