[Python-Dev] RE: test_sort.py failure (original) (raw)

Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy) tdelaney at avaya.com
Thu Jul 29 06:06:08 CEST 2004

Tim Peters wrote:

I think I have a fix for this, and will check it in when the tests finish.

However, it doesn't fail on my box -- MS is always moving the memory around. So I hope that, before someone rebuilds with the checkin, they temporarily fiddle the test on their box so it fails more often. I expect that setting the list size to 3 instead of 50 will do that. If you set it to 1, the test will never fail.

Might it be worthwhile trying to capture one starting point that provokes this behaviour consistently on some machines and include that as an additional specific test case?

I guess it would depend on how consistently it could be provoked.

Tim Delaney

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