[Python-Dev] Developing/patching ctypes (original) (raw)

Thomas Heller theller at python.net
Fri Mar 10 22:15:47 CET 2006

Neal Norwitz wrote:

On 3/10/06, Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> wrote:

BTW: The buildbot reports ctypes test failures on the gentoo amd64 machine:

http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/trunk/amd64%20gentoo%20trunk/builds/277/step-test/0 Is there a way to get the actual failures somehow? Running the tests in verbose mode by default is probably not a good idea, because it may make tests fail, AFAIK. I want to modify regrtest so the traceback info is stored in a file, so you can still retrieve the data after a test run. I haven't started making this mod yet.

There are also sporadic test failures on the OSX machine:

http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/trunk/g4%20osx.4%20trunk/builds/345/step-test/0

I think the test is broken - but what I find interesting is that in this case the actual failure is printed:

""" test_set test_ctypes test test_ctypes failed -- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/buildslave/bb/trunk.4/build/Lib/ctypes/test/test_leaks.py", line 68, in test_cycles_refcount self.fail("leaking refcounts") AssertionError: leaking refcounts

test_long_future """

Why is that?

Thomas

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