[Python-Dev] testsuite with tmp/@test (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Tue Jan 13 19:30:11 CET 2009


On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 06:09, Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com> wrote:

By accident i had a dir called @test in my PCBuild directory when I was running the testsuite.

This caused the testsupport to define TESTFN as tmp/@test.

This again caused a number of tests to fail. One issue I have already covered in http://bugs.python.org/issue4927 Another issue is testimport which doesn't like importing with filename. But a lot of tests fail because of incorrect path name delimeters and such. Shouldn't we try to make this work as well as possible even with a temp file that is in a subdirectory?

Yes.Use of TESTFN should assume it is a file but not know exactly where that file is kept.

-Brett



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