On 09/12/2014 11:21 AM, Mike Bayer wrote: > > On Sep 12, 2014, at 7:39 AM, Sean Dague <s...@dague.net> wrote: > >> I assume you, gentle OpenStack developers, often find yourself in a hair >> tearing out moment of frustration about why local unit tests are doing >> completely insane things. The code that it is stack tracing on is no >> where to be found, and yet it fails. >> >> And then you realize.... that part of oslo doesn't exist any more.... >> except there are still pyc files laying around. Gah! >> >> I've proposed the following to Nova and Python novaclient - >> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/121044/ >> >> Which sets PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=true in the unit tests. > > my VPN was down and I didn’t get this thread just now, but I am strongly -1 > on this as added to tox.ini, my response is > http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-September/045873.html. > > Short answer: if you want this feature, put PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE into > *your* environment. Don’t force it on our automated tests or on my > environment. .pyc files make a difference in behavior, and if we banish > them from all testing, then our code is never tested within the environment > that it will normally be run in after shipment. > > I’d far prefer a simple script added to tox.ini which deletes orphaned .pyc > files only, if a change to tox.ini must be made.
Your example in the other thread includes the random seed behavior, which is already addressed in new tox. So I don't see that as an issue. -Sean -- Sean Dague http://dague.net _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev