[Python-Dev] Python 2.5.1 (original) (raw)

Khalid A. Bakr khabkr at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 27 16:01:16 CEST 2007

Hello

I downloaded Python's 2.5.1 (final) bz2 source archive the other day to try to compile it in MinGW. I have noted down the following observations that might be of interest.

  1. The bz2 archive ships with \Modules\collectionsmodule.c instead of the \Modules_collectionsmodule.c used in the 2.5 SVN branch. In fact the collectionsmodule.c was removed some time ago.

  2. If _collectionsmodule.c is the one to be used in branch and source then it follows that \PC\config.c needs an update.

  3. test_1686475 of test_os appears to rely on the existence of "c:\pagefile.sys" like so:

     def test_1686475(self):
     # Verify that an open file can be stat'ed
     try:
         os.stat(r"c:\pagefile.sys")
     except WindowsError, e:
         if e == 2: # file does not exist;

cannot run test return self.fail("Could not stat pagefile.sys")

But since that file does not appear to be in my C drive and since the Windows error returned is not a numeric, but rather a string of the sort: "[Error 5] Access is denied: 'c:\pagefile.sys'" then that test fails for me both in the MinGW compiled Python and in the officially distributed one.

  1. Also test_1565150 of test_os which reads as follows:

    Restrict test to Win32, since there is no

guarantee other # systems support centiseconds if sys.platform == 'win32': def test_1565150(self): t1 = 1159195039.25 os.utime(self.fname, (t1, t1))

self.assertEquals(os.stat(self.fname).st_mtime, t1)

fails in the MinGW compiled Python with the following message:

====================================================================== FAIL: test_1565150 (test.test_os.StatAttributeTests)

Traceback (most recent call last): File "G:\projs\py25\python\r25\lib\test\test_os.py", line 241, in test_1565150

self.assertEquals(os.stat(self.fname).st_mtime,

t1) AssertionError: 1159195040 != 1159195039.25

If the same test passes in the official CPython on the same machine (and it does), can it then be deduced that this is not a system's issue but a compiler one?

Thanks Khalid

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