On 21/02/2022 14:40, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
Considering the lack of posts from people interested in doing the work
on trial (but thanks, glyph!) for now I will conclude that indeed trial
does not have much of a developer community behind it - so I will
probably not immediately make plans to undertake any serious efforts to
maintain or improve it myself (since I doubt that I have the resources
to meaningfully accomplish the necessary work on my own).
I'm sorry to be brutally honest here, but this covers Twisted, not just
trial. All the energy is around asyncio stuff like FastAPI and the stack
it's built on. Twisted is great, but feels seriously dated (eg:
humpyCase, yield instead of await, trial instead of pytest, "only one
event loop that you can't restart") and debugging is hellish. I have a
massive amount of respect for the framework, to be clear, but I also
understand why there's not much of an active developer community around
it: it's not a thing that's fun to work on; 20yrs of history rarely is...
I've noticed trial itself routinely leaks failures across tests,
resulting in some random test down the line spuriously failing. I've
hacked up tooling to run `trial -u` for 10s for each test case to try
and find these happening, but feels like something the test runner
should really cater for.
This is neither here nor there but this sounds like what `--force-gc` is
for
Yep, we use --force-gc on all our CI runs, but plenty still leak
through. The most robust way I've found is running `trial -u` in a
subprocess for 10s per test and "passing" if it's still going. It's
certainly niggly that there's no way to exit trial -u without an ugly
stracktrace and a nonzero return code.
cheers,
Chris
_______________________________________________
Twisted mailing list -- [email protected]
To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/twisted.python.org/
Message archived at
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/P5IRRYW7OMXLSJTI4QZ6S6Q6ZUJSZFWR/
Code of Conduct: https://twisted.org/conduct
