[Python-Dev] test_uuid (original) (raw)
Ka-Ping Yee python-dev at zesty.ca
Sat Jul 29 22:05:16 CEST 2006
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On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Neal Norwitz wrote:
I just checked in a change to disable testing 2 uuid functions (ifconfiggetnode and unixdllgetnode) that fail on many platforms. Here's the message:
""" Disable these tests until they are reliable across platforms. These problems may mask more important, real problems. One or both methods are known to fail on: Solaris, OpenBSD, Debian, Ubuntu. They pass on Windows and some Linux boxes. """
_ifconfig_get_node() should work on all Linuxes. (Thanks for fixing it to work on more types of Unix.)
It's okay for unixdll_getnode to fail when the necessary shared library is not available.
Ideally, test_uuid should serve as a record of which platforms we expect these routines to work on. The uuid module as a whole isn't broken if one of these routines fails; it just means that we don't have complete platform coverage and/or test_uuid has inaccurate expectations of which routines work on which platforms.
-- ?!ng
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