[Python-Dev] New work-in-progress bisection tool for the Python test suite (in regrtest) (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Jul 4 06:52:34 EDT 2017

On 4 July 2017 at 19:55, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

On Python 2, the addition of Lib/test/bisect.py caused conflict with Lib/bisect.py when running the Python test suite :-( I chose to rename Lib/test/bisect.py to Lib/test/bisectcmd.py to reduce changes caused by this new debug tool. So only in Python 2.7, you have to run:

./python -m test.bisectcmd ...

I know it's longer, but perhaps it would make sense to put the bisection helper under "python -m test.support.bisect" in both Python 2 & 3?

Even in Python 3 "test.bisect" looks a bit like the test suite for the bisect module to me - you have to "just know" that the latter actually lives at "test.test_bisect".

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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