[issue37957] Allow regrtest to receive a file with test (and subtests) to ignore

STINNER Victor added the comment: New changeset b894b669c98cc365b84cbb8d20f531f1d0686f59 by Victor Stinner in branch '3.7': Update libregrtest from master (GH-19517) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b894b669c98cc365b84cbb8d20f531f1d0686f59 --

[issue37957] Allow regrtest to receive a file with test (and subtests) to ignore

STINNER Victor added the comment: New changeset 67b8a1f0f0f78ec38b8626fa9f5b2f5a55c17e15 by Victor Stinner in branch '3.8': [3.8] Update libregrtest from master (GH-19516) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/67b8a1f0f0f78ec38b8626fa9f5b2f5a55c17e15 --

[issue37957] Allow regrtest to receive a file with test (and subtests) to ignore

Pablo Galindo Salgado added the comment: Ok, I reopen until the backports -- resolution: fixed -> status: closed -> open ___ Python tracker ___

[issue37957] Allow regrtest to receive a file with test (and subtests) to ignore

STINNER Victor added the comment: I'm trying to keep regrtest in sync between 3.7, 3.8 and master branches. Maybe backport this change to 3.7 and 3.8 branches once buildbots validated the change? I'm keeping them in sync mostly to make bugfixes easier, but also to make my life easier when I

[issue37957] Allow regrtest to receive a file with test (and subtests) to ignore

Change by Pablo Galindo Salgado : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed versions: -Python 3.8 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue37957] Allow regrtest to receive a file with test (and subtests) to ignore

Pablo Galindo Salgado added the comment: New changeset e0cd8aa70a3ce19c3d3712568940aa0cbd9aa97b by Pablo Galindo in branch 'master': bpo-37957: Allow regrtest to receive a file with test (and subtests) to ignore (GH-16989)

[issue37957] Allow regrtest to receive a file with test (and subtests) to ignore

Change by Pablo Galindo Salgado : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +16515 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/16989 ___ Python tracker

[issue37957] Allow regrtest to receive a file with test (and subtests) to ignore

STINNER Victor added the comment: FYI in the past, Fedora and RHEL packages skipped multiple tests using downstream patches. Hopefully, we managed to reenable almost all tests. Currently in Fedora, the python3 package use regrtest -x to skip some tests: # Run the upstream test suite #

[issue37957] Allow regrtest to receive a file with test (and subtests) to ignore

Pablo Galindo Salgado added the comment: > Tests that fail on some platforms can be marked to skip in code. One of the use cases of this feature is for people to package Python at distributions or companies and want to run the test suite without modifying the code or applying patches.

[issue37957] Allow regrtest to receive a file with test (and subtests) to ignore

STINNER Victor added the comment: > Tests that fail on some platforms can be marked to skip in code. We provide best-effort support for AIX, but I consider that Solaris is no longer supported, and so I would prefer to avoid code specific to Soliars in the Python source code. Except if Pablo

[issue37957] Allow regrtest to receive a file with test (and subtests) to ignore

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Tests that fail on some platforms can be marked to skip in code. For example: @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform.startswith('aix'), 'bpo-29972: broken test on AIX') def test_strcoll_with_diacritic(self):

[issue37957] Allow regrtest to receive a file with test (and subtests) to ignore

STINNER Victor added the comment: I'm fine with adding an --excludefile=filename option to regrtest. Do you want to try to implement it? A test can be added in test_regrtest. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue37957] Allow regrtest to receive a file with test (and subtests) to ignore

New submission from Pablo Galindo Salgado : When building Python in some uncommon platforms (I am looking at you Solaris and AIX) there are some known tests that will fail. Right now, regrtest has the ability to ignore entire tests using the -x option and to receive a filter file using the