[Python-Dev] More joy with test_strptime (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Mon Jul 12 05:24:28 CEST 2004

[Tim] ...

So now I'm suspecting that the tricks in PthFile are managing to create a second instance of the time module not related to the instance of the time module teststrptime is monkey-patching with its

time.tzname = (tzname, tzname) time.daylight = 1 tricks.

Using the attached patch yields output

test___all__ test_site test_strptime in strptime ('Eastern Standard Time', 'Eastern Daylight Time') 1 in test_bad_timezone ('Eastern Standard Time', 'Eastern Standard Time') 1 in strptime ('Eastern Standard Time', 'Eastern Daylight Time') 1 ...

so test_strptime's attempt to monkey-patch the time module indeed has no effect on the time module _strptime.py is using.

The problem can be fixed by using this as the first line of test_bad_timezone:

    from _strptime import time

But, of course, that's insane.

But if so, I'm at a loss to explain why this would only happen on Windows.

Still so.

Is it the case that teststrptime is only failing on Windows?

Still wondering that.

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