[Python-Dev] uuid test suite failing (original) (raw)

Ka-Ping Yee python-dev at zesty.ca
Sat Jul 29 22:00:50 CEST 2006

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Neal Norwitz wrote:

This only fixes 1 of the 2 failures in testuuid. The other one is due to unixdllgetnode() failing. This is because uuidgeneratetime is None because we couldn't find it in the uuid library. This is just broken, not sure if it's the code or the test though. We should handle the case if uuidgeneratetime and the others are None better. I don't know what to do in this case.

The design intention is this: each of the various *_getnode() functions is supposed to work on the platform for which it was written. For example, _windll_getnode() is supposed to work on Windows, and will raise an exception on other platforms; if it raises an exception on Windows, something is wrong (the code's expectations of the OS are not met). When uuid_generate_time is unavailable, _unixdll_getnode() is supposed to fail.

The getnode() function is just supposed to get an available MAC address; that's why it catches any exceptions raised by the *_getnode() functions.

-- ?!ng

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