[Python-Dev] Python 2.5.1 (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Apr 29 09:59:47 CEST 2007

Khalid A. Bakr schrieb:

For reference, this is the result of running the regression tests of the official Python 2.5.1 (final) on Win98. I think I saw it in the installtion screen that Python 2.5 is the last release to support Win98.

Even though the unicode tests failing might be expected, what interested me was the fact that test1565150 of testos failed. Details follow.

Ah, ok. This means that the test is bogus. On Win95 (and, strictly speaking, NT+ installed on FAT), the test will certainly fail, because FAT has no subsecond resolution for file modification times (it doesn't even have second resolution - the granularity is 2s).

This failure does not bother me much - os.stat itself works just fine on this system. If you want to contribute a patch to skip the test on W9x, please go ahead - but IMO, there is no harm done having this test fail on W9x for the rest of 2.5.x.

Regards, Martin

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