[Python-Dev] [python-committers] (Windows) buildbots on 3.x (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Aug 4 17:33:22 CEST 2010

Le mercredi 04 août 2010 à 16:28 +0100, Paul Moore a écrit :

On 4 August 2010 13:05, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

>> I'm also quite confused by the testsmtpd failures that pop up on some >> of the test runs that I've had absolutely no luck reproducing locally >> under OS X or Solaris. > > It happens when running testsmtplib before testsmtpb: Nice! How did you work that out? I'd like to learn how to diagnose this sort of thing, because it seems to come up a lot, and I'm not much use at the moment :-)

I took a quick look at test_smtpd, and the one possibly fishy thing that stood out was the monkeypatching of the socket module using test.mock_socket. Since monkeypatching typically goes wrong when several people monkeypatch the same thing, and the other test.mock_socket user is test_smtplib, and since the buildbots run tests in random order (rather than in deterministic alphabetic order), I simply tried to run test_smtplib before test_smtpd.

Regards

Antoine.

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