[Python-Dev] platform module testing (original) (raw)

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Sat May 17 17:15:26 CEST 2008

Christian Heimes wrote:

Benjamin Peterson schrieb:

At the moment, the test for the platform module merely calls each function. I realize that this is a hard module to test well, but are there some assumptions we can make? For example, if sys.platform is 'java', can it be assumed that javaver is going to return something which is not empty. When sys.platform is 'darwin' and the gestalt module is present, is it reasonable to require that a empty tuple not be returned? A student has created a patch during the GHOP contest which adds some features and tests for Linux. AFAIK the patch hasn't been applied yet. See http://bugs.python.org/issue1322 Contributor agreement?

regards Steve

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