On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Vaclav Petras <wenzesl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 5:32 AM, Markus Metz <markus.metz.gisw...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> BTW, the test suite does not run with Python 2.6 because import >> argparse fails, this module is new in Python 2.7. > > > I know and I don't know if 2.6 support is feasible. A lot of unittest > functions was added in 2.7, so most of the tests would fail anyway. There is > unittest2 package which can be installed separately and used instead of > unittest in Python 2.6 but as I was reading about it it does not seem as > smooth as I hoped for. > > But perhaps installing unittest2 and argparse is worth trying. Few changes > will be required in gunittest too, mostly imports I hope.
I will give it a try, argparse and unittest2 are available through the package manager for my stock Python 2.6 version. > > About which platform do we talk about RHEL 6 and relatives, officially supported until end of 2020. > because now I'm starting to be > concerned more about Python 3 which is appearing more and more as default. ... for cutting (bleeding) edge distros, not yet for enterprise distros. Markus M > > I forgot to mention this in the other thread about gunittest backport, > incompatibility with 2.6 is another argument against backport. > > Vaclav > > https://docs.python.org/2/library/unittest.html#assert-methods > https://docs.python.org/2/library/unittest.html#unittest.TestCase.assertRaisesRegexp > https://docs.python.org/2/library/unittest.html#unittest.TestCase.addTypeEqualityFunc > https://docs.python.org/2/library/unittest.html#unittest.TestCase.setUpClass > https://docs.python.org/2/library/unittest.html#unittest.registerResult > > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/unittest2 > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/argparse _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev