[Python-Dev] Tests failing on Windows with TESTFN (original) (raw)

Jeremy Kloth jeremy.kloth at gmail.com
Sun Jul 29 11:40:45 EDT 2018


On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 9:34 AM Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:

For testmailbox I've experimentally implemented a hybrid tempfile / local directory solution. ie I've created a new file on each run, but only within the python folder which already exists. As long as the directory cleans up there should be no leftovers. That's certainly helped although my re-run harness has provoked at least one error.

As Eryk noted, the fix for mailbox.py (yes, the stdlib needs fixing in this case) is quite simple:

diff --git a/Lib/mailbox.py b/Lib/mailbox.py index 056251d..eb85df1 100644 --- a/Lib/mailbox.py +++ b/Lib/mailbox.py @@ -701,8 +701,7 @@ class _singlefileMailbox(Mailbox): try: os.rename(new_file.name, self._path) except FileExistsError:

-- Jeremy Kloth



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