[Python-Dev] Misc. warnings (original) (raw)

Martin v. L�wis martin@v.loewis.de
08 Jan 2003 11:05:33 +0100

"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> writes:

> The message "2 skips unexpected" does not mean that anybody is not > expecting something. It merely means that those tests are skipped > and not listed in the dictionary "expectations".

So why not list them in expectations ?

I don't know. I cannot understand the purpose of _expectations.

If the purpose is that Python never prints "skips unexpected", it would be better to remove that print statement.

True, but what those systems which don't come with a Linux supported soundcard or a supported BSD DB installation ?

They will skip that test. Again, I don't understand the purpose of the skip message, but I know of atleast one case where a user reviewed the skip messages to install a number of missing libraries. That user would not learn about missing libraries if the tests are added to _expectations.

I'd place the two modules into the expectations dict and enhance the error messages to:

testbsddb3 skipped -- No usable Sleepycat BSD DB 3 installation found

This is not the likely cause. I'm pretty sure you have such an installation on your system. The likely cause that the test was skipped is that the bsddb3 resource was not given to regrtest.

testossaudiodev skipped -- No OSS-compatible soundcard support found

Again, not the likely cause. The likely cause is that ossaudiodev is not built - you have discovered a genuine bug. ossaudiodev is never built, on any system.

BTW, after inspection I found that SuSE Linux ships with BSD DB 4.0.x. The module name would suggest that this version is not supported. Is that so ?

No. The _bsddb.c works find with BSD DB 4.0, and I'm pretty sure that your Python build has found and used this library. Otherwise, test_bsddb would also be skipped.

Regards, Martin