[Python-Dev] regrtest.py mystery (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Sat, 15 Dec 2001 18:53:57 -0500

Martin v. Loewis writes:

Python/codecs.c holds search functions in _PyCodec_SearchPath, among them encodings.init.search_function. It also imports "encodings" the first time somebody invokes .encode/.decode on some kind of string, but doesn't hold onto the module.

Perhaps it should hold onto the module as well? That would avoid it getting cleaned up before possibly dependent modules. For the test case problem, perhaps there should be a list of exceptional modules that don't get cleaned up by regrtest once they appear. encodings and warnings would probably both need to be on the list. This list should probably be in the sys module; it would also be useful for the RollbackImporter in the unittestgui.py script that comes with the separate PyUnit package.

-Fred

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