[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] the release gods are angry at python (original) (raw)

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc amauryfa at gmail.com
Wed Apr 2 11:07:03 CEST 2008


On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Trent Nelson <tnelson at onresolve.com> wrote:

> > In the py3k branch I've assigned the audio resource to the winsound > > tests. Only regrtest.py -uall or -uaudio runs the winsound test. > Reason: > > the test sound was freaking out my poor cat. :/ > > I feel with your cat ;-). > This would not help on the buildbot since it runs 'rt.bat -d -q -uall - > rw'.

I feel for the poor NOC engineers at my colo that freak out when some random server in a farm of thousands starts making bizarre sounds. I detest testwinsound. There are so many corner cases you need to account for that makes the test pointless as you end up wrapping everything in except: pass blocks. Does the system have a legacy beep driver? Is it enabled? Is it disabled? Is there a sound card? Is it enabled or disabled? Pah! +1 to removing audio out of -uall, if only for the sake of cats, erroneously red buildbots, and poor ServerCentral NOC engineers.

And I would not mind removing this module altogether, and provide a ctypes implementation.

-- Amaury Forgeot d'Arc



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