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

Calvin Spealman ironfroggy at gmail.com
Sun Apr 29 19:57:10 CEST 2007

On 4/29/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

Right. It shouldn't fail if the file is absent (it shouldn't pass in that case, either, but regrtest has no support for INCONCLUSIVE test outcomes).

Perhaps that could become part of the improvements made through test.test_support.TestCase?

Ok. However, this pattern is quite common in the Python test suite (62 test cases, with prefixes such as test, testbug, testsf, testbug, testpatch), so adding it just to this single test case may be a drop in the ocean for people unfamiliar with that convention.

Very true, but maybe more tests could have the more descriptive names, then. For example, I would have known what it meant if the test name prefix was test_sf_ instead of just test_. Changing the names shouldn't interfere with anything else, so if I rename them in an effort to help the next guy, would that be accepted?

Ok! When you come up with a way to test this problem "stand-alone" (i.e. without relying on the pagefile), please submit a patch. I'll let this sit for some time, and if nothing happens, I go for Khalid's patch before 2.5.2 is released (which is still months ahead).

Now that I have the full picture, I have less motivation about it. Although, I am curious what is different about the situation where pagefile.sys could not be stat'ed in 2.5.0 but other open files could.

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