[Python-Dev] New test failure, test_socket, WinXP (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Jul 6 05:40:32 CEST 2004


Tim Peters wrote:

> Fails every time, in release and debug builds: > > test testsocket failed -- Traceback (most recent call last): > File "C:\Code\python\lib\test\testsocket.py", line 311, in testGetServBy > eq(socket.getservbyport(port2), service) > AssertionError: 'http' != 'www' > Passes on OS X. Does it pass if you change "www" to "http" on line 292? Might fix it by being more correct on possible services.

Ouch. The test looks wrong. 'www' is a bogus alias for 'http' (IMO).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)



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