Re: [Checkins] SVN: zope.testing/trunk/ - fix test failure on Python 2.4 because of slight difference in the way

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Christian Theune <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 11:43 -0400, Benji York wrote:
>> Log message for revision 99151:
>>   - fix test failure on Python 2.4 because of slight difference in the way
>>     coverage is reported (__init__ files with only a single comment line are now
>>     not reported)
>>   - fixed bug that caused the test runner to hang when running subprocesses (as a
>>     result Python 2.3 is no longer supported).
>
> Ah, great. I was working towards a fix as well, but hadn't had time to
> fix that. For me this only appeared on 2.5, not 2.4, same for you?

It happened with 2.6 for me.  I believe the cause was deprecation
warnings confusing the (rather brittle) stderr parsing.

> Something that I also see: the output of subprocesses is only displayed
> after the subprocess finished which also gives the impression of hangs
> also it just takes time.

Yep, that was a side-effect of changing the subprocess output parsing
from "online" to "offline".

>> +# unfortunately there is a zope.testing.testrunner.subprocess module that we
>> +# need to avoid; also, we want to support Python 2.4, which doesn't have
>> +# # from __future__ import absolute_import, so we use a hack instead
>> +import imp
>> +subprocess = imp.load_module('subprocess', *imp.find_module('subprocess'))
>> +
>
> I found that as well. I would also be happy to rename the local
> subprocess module as it's really an implementation detail.

That'd be fine with me.
-- 
Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation