On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 7:11 PM Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> wrote: > > On 21/05/2019 17.31, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > > > As I said, if the main annoyance with nntplib is the sporadic test > > failures, then the relevant tests can be disabled on CI. > > > > NNTP itself is still used, even if less and less. > > I don't like the idea to drop a third of the test cases for nntplib -- and > the 30% that actually test that Python's NNTP library can talk to an actual > NNTP server. IMHO it's more beneficial for core development and for nntplib > to have it maintained by somebody that cares about the library.
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/9461 should fix most of the annoyances with test_nntplib. It uses a local server instead of an external one. --Berker _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
