> GvR> python Lib/test/test_socketserver.py > > Aha! Then the code at the top is really broken: > > # XXX This must be run manually -- somehow the I/O redirection of the > # regression test breaks the test. > > from test_support import verbose, verify, TESTFN, TestSkipped > if not verbose: > raise TestSkipped, "test_socketserver can only be run manually" I guess when I say "run a test manually" I think "from the command line", not "from the interactive prompt". :-( > There are two substantial problems. First, the comment about I/O > redirection is wrong. I remember I couldn't figure out *why* it was failing. :-( > Second, if you do run regrtest.py -v, then the > test will be run anyway. This is how I first stumbled over the > problem. Another test was failing and I used -v to figure out why. > But regrtest.py also reported that test_socketserver failed and then > hung, because socketserver non-daemon threads were still running. Yup, that's a problem. > So what's the right way to fix this test? If the test can't be run as > part of regrtest and can't be imported, I wonder why it's in Lib/test > to begin with. pystone.py is also in Lib/test. It's a collection of tests. Maybe this test should be renamed. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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