[Python-Dev] fixing tests on windows (original) (raw)

Tim Golden mail at timgolden.me.uk
Wed Apr 2 10:03:51 CEST 2008

Gregory P. Smith wrote:

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:

Tim Golden wrote:

import os, sys import win32file

FILENAME = "test" def renameandremove (filename): os.rename (filename, filename + ".deleted") os.remove (filename + ".deleted")

Isn't this still going to run into problems when the rename fails because the earlier tests remove still left the .deleted file around due to some other running desktop search service that now has the .deleted file open?

I admit: this did occur to me on the train this am. While I try to think of a robust way to handle this, other people have proposed variations on pid-based / tempdir based filenames instead of the same name for each test. In principle this sounds good to me, but I'm not at all well-placed to assess the impact it might have on the unit tests in general.

TJG

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