[Python-Dev] Test failures in test_timeout (original) (raw)

Dmitry Vasiliev lists at hlabs.spb.ru
Fri Feb 17 08:27:47 CET 2006

Steve Holden wrote:

Thomas Wouters wrote:

I'm thinking that it could probably try to connect to a less reliable website, but that's just moving the problem around (and possibly harassing an unsuspecting website, particularly around release-time.) Perhaps the test should try to connect to a known unconnecting site, like a firewalled port on www.python.org? Not something that refuses connections, just something that times out.

Couldn't the test use subprocess to start a reliably slow server on localhost? It might even be possible to retrieve the ephemeral port number used by the server, to avoid conflicts with already-used ports on the testing machine.

About 3 years ago I submitted the patch for test_timeout which had fixed some of these issues:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=728815&group_id=5470&atid=305470

Now I think the patch need more review and need to be updated for the current Python version and maybe some new ideas.

-- Dmitry Vasiliev (dima at hlabs.spb.ru) http://hlabs.spb.ru

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