[Python-Dev] OK to lower timeout for test_timeout's testConnectTimeout test? (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Fri Aug 6 16:15:05 CEST 2004

Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> writes:

"A.M. Kuchling" <amk at amk.ca> writes:

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 12:40:23PM +0100, Michael Hudson wrote: ONE of these days, I'll get around to doing something about testcurses... the test is being silly (or at least, that's what I remember from the last time I dug into this).

What's testcurses doing wrong? I think the problem is that it sometimes calls "curses.cursset(1)" which doesn't work

Argh; it always calls curses.curs_set(1) which sometimes doesn't work...

(returns ERR) when certain definitions (cuvis, I guess) aren't in the terminfo database, which gets translated into a Python exception.

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