Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
I feel that conscientious users who test their installations should get a clean
test. They cannot be expected to know that this is an 'expected failure' and
therefore not really a failure.
Test_tools has the following, which indeed works to skip on installed 3.4.1 but
not on built 3.4.1+.
if not sysconfig.is_python_build():
# XXX some installers do contain the tools, should we detect that
# and run the tests in that case too?
raise unittest.SkipTest('test irrelevant for an installed Python')
How about we decorate the two failing tests
line 156, in test_optional_extension # or
line 316, in test_get_outputs
with
@unittest.skipUnless(sysconfig.is_python_build(),
'test irrelevant for an installed Python') # or modify message
?
----------
_______________________________________
Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org>
<http://bugs.python.org/issue12420>
_______________________________________
_______________________________________________
Python-bugs-list mailing list
Unsubscribe:
https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
