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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Jul 6 06:39:17 CEST 2004

>> 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'

[Brett C.] > Does it pass if you change "www" to "http" on line 292? Yup! I'm not going to check that in, though -- I don't really know what this test is doing.

If on some platforms getservbyport(80) returns 'http' and on others 'www', the test should rely on neither. Technically speaking, 'http' is right and 'www' is wrong (there's no protocol named 'www'), but if that's what a platform's getservbyport(80) returns, and if socket.getservbyport() is supposed to be (as I hope) a simple wrapper around the platform's getservbyport(), then we shouldn't be testing specific values of the platform's function.

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

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