[Python-Dev] Regression tests (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Tue Jul 13 22:10:14 CEST 2004

[Batista, Facundo]

This is my first time doing the regression tests after an installation, and I have some questions:

- It gave me a lot of skipped: 42 tests skipped: test_locale testaepack testal testapplesingle testbsddb185 testcd testcl testcodecmapscn testcodecmapsjp testcodecmapskr testcodecmapstw testcommands testcrypt testcurses testdbm testdl testfcntl testfork1 testgdbm testgl testgrp testimgfile testioctl testlinuxaudiodev testmacfs testmacostools testmhlib testmpz testnis testnormalization testopenpty testossaudiodev testplistlib testpoll testposix testpty testpwd testresource testscriptpackages testsignal testsunaudiodev testtiming Those skips are all expected on win32. As long these are all expected to skip, shouldn't they not be tested in -uall mode?

It's very clear which tests "should" and "shouldn't" get skipped on Windows, because the Python Windows installation includes all the 3rd-party code too (Berkely DB, Tcl/Tk, zlib, bz2, etc). It's much fuzzier on other systems. In order to avoid special-casing Windows, regrtest.py just tries everything on all platforms.

- It gave me some failed:

6 tests failed: testcfgparser testdecimal testsocketssl testtimeout testurllib2 testurllibnet What should I do with these? I'll certainly take a look at testdecimal, but with the others? Inform them here? Open bugs?

The test_cfgparser and test_decimal failures are due to missing test files in the 2.4a1 installer. I already opened a bug report about those.

I'm not sure about the others. I've never tried -uall on Windows. test_cfgparser and test_decimal were the only ones that failed on my WinXP installation when doing

regrtest.py -u network,largefile,bsddb,decimal

I don't think the other 4 should have failed. So please open bug reports, and set the version to Python 2.4.

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