[Python-Dev] test_pwd is really slow (original) (raw)

Walter Dörwald walter at livinglogic.de
Tue Jul 13 11:26:25 CEST 2004


Guido van Rossum wrote:

I've been having trouble running the tests lately, because testpwd is really slow. It's a fairly trivial set of tests -- checking the types of return values and cross-checking getpwall() vs. getpwnam()/getpwuid(). The problem is if your password database is provided by LDAP and is really big, the test takes an impractically long time.

Would anyone object if I changed the test suite to require some resource to run testpwd? Or should I just make some local change to disable it? How about instead limiting the number of entries checked to the first 100? Try changing entries = pwd.getpwall() into entries = pwd.getpwall()[:100]

If the bottleneck is in the n calls to pwd.getpwnam() and pwd.getpwuid() limiting n is an option. If the bottleneck is the one call to pwd.getpwall() adding a resource requirement might be the only option.

Bye, Walter Dörwald



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