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

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Sun Apr 29 07:04:59 CEST 2007

"Khalid A. Bakr" <khabkr at yahoo.com> wrote:

--- "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote: > There must be more to the problem than just an open > file. Please undo the change that triggered the > addition of the test, and see whether you > can reproduce the original problem with an arbitrary > open file (I > could trigger the problem with pagefile.sys at the > time). > > Regards, > Martin --- "Calvin Spealman" wrote: > I'm sorry, but somehow I could not parse this. My > understanding was that the unittest was meant to > make sure an os.stat call would be successful on an > open file, and that pagefile.sys was >simply used as > a known open file, which is no longer correct. If > that is the case, I am unsure what problem there is > with >my fix of a temporary open file to test upon

I think the point is that the problem should be solved (stat of open file) for any arbitrary open file including pagefile.sys.

On Windows there is no guarantee that there will be a pagefile.sys on the C drive, or even that there exists a C drive. The test checking for the result of os.stat('C:\pagefile.sys') is broken. Create a temporary file, open it with Python, then stat it (like you later suggest). Either that or use sys.executable . Either one would likely be fine.

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