[issue4951] failure in test_httpservers

Walter Dörwald wal...@livinglogic.de added the comment: There's an EnvironmentVarGuard context manager in support.py that IMHO should be used for recording changes to the environment variables. Or a new context manager that does what your patch does could be put into support.py. There might be

[issue4951] failure in test_httpservers

Walter Dörwald wal...@livinglogic.de added the comment: Hmm, EnvironmentVarGuard seems to be broken: import os from test import support with support.EnvironmentVarGuard() as env: env.unset(HOME) env.set(HOME, bar) print(os.environ.get(HOME)) I would have expected that to print the

[issue4951] failure in test_httpservers

Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: EnvironmentVarGuard certainly looks like a good thing to use here, provided that it works... -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4951

[issue4951] failure in test_httpservers

Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com added the comment: Applied in r71878 and r71879. Thanks EnvironmentVarGuard is definitely the way to go, I'll use it. -- status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue4951] failure in test_httpservers

Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: This looks like an interaction with test_distutils. On OS X 10.5.6 I get: Macintosh-4:py3k dickinsm$ ./python.exe Lib/test/regrtest.py test_distutils test_httpservers test_distutils test_httpservers Traceback (most recent call last): File

[issue4951] failure in test_httpservers

Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: Here's the verbose test output: Macintosh-4:py3k dickinsm$ ./python.exe Lib/test/regrtest.py -v test_distutils test_httpservers test_distutils test_formats (distutils.tests.test_bdist.BuildTestCase) ... ok test_simple_built

[issue4951] failure in test_httpservers

Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: On my machine, the failure seems to come down to this: Macintosh-4:py3k dickinsm$ MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.4 ./python.exe Python 3.1a2+ (py3k:71845M, Apr 24 2009, 19:51:44) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5490)] on darwin Type help,

[issue4951] failure in test_httpservers

Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: Okay, I think I've got this figured out. It's a problem in the distutils tests: the mechanism for saving and restoring environment variables in Lib/distutils/tests/test_util.py doesn't work: after the line self.environ =

[issue4951] failure in test_httpservers

Ned Deily n...@acm.org added the comment: Also seeing on OS X. Without having looked at the code yet, I wonder if this might be related to Issue1711605. -- nosy: +nad ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4951

[issue4951] failure in test_httpservers

Ger Luijten gcjm.luij...@gmail.com added the comment: Reported Issue 5494 Failure in test_httpservers on Linux with other error message. Maybe there is a relation, maybe not. Greetings, Ger -- nosy: +gerluijten ___ Python tracker

[issue4951] failure in test_httpservers

New submission from Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr: This one seems to pop up rather frequently on the buildbots: == FAIL: test_post (test.test_httpservers.CGIHTTPServerTestCase)