Fixes Issue #16114: The subprocess module no longer provides a

misleading error message stating that args[0] did not exist when
either the cwd or executable keyword arguments specified a path that
did not exist.
This commit is contained in:
Gregory P. Smith 2012-10-10 03:44:47 -07:00
commit a10ddb8a55
4 changed files with 59 additions and 9 deletions

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@ -1038,24 +1038,30 @@ class _SuppressCoreFiles(object):
@unittest.skipIf(mswindows, "POSIX specific tests")
class POSIXProcessTestCase(BaseTestCase):
def test_exceptions(self):
nonexistent_dir = "/_this/pa.th/does/not/exist"
def setUp(self):
super().setUp()
self._nonexistent_dir = "/_this/pa.th/does/not/exist"
def _get_chdir_exception(self):
try:
os.chdir(nonexistent_dir)
os.chdir(self._nonexistent_dir)
except OSError as e:
# This avoids hard coding the errno value or the OS perror()
# string and instead capture the exception that we want to see
# below for comparison.
desired_exception = e
desired_exception.strerror += ': ' + repr(sys.executable)
desired_exception.strerror += ': ' + repr(self._nonexistent_dir)
else:
self.fail("chdir to nonexistant directory %s succeeded." %
nonexistent_dir)
self._nonexistent_dir)
return desired_exception
# Error in the child re-raised in the parent.
def test_exception_cwd(self):
"""Test error in the child raised in the parent for a bad cwd."""
desired_exception = self._get_chdir_exception()
try:
p = subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, "-c", ""],
cwd=nonexistent_dir)
cwd=self._nonexistent_dir)
except OSError as e:
# Test that the child process chdir failure actually makes
# it up to the parent process as the correct exception.
@ -1064,6 +1070,33 @@ class POSIXProcessTestCase(BaseTestCase):
else:
self.fail("Expected OSError: %s" % desired_exception)
def test_exception_bad_executable(self):
"""Test error in the child raised in the parent for a bad executable."""
desired_exception = self._get_chdir_exception()
try:
p = subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, "-c", ""],
executable=self._nonexistent_dir)
except OSError as e:
# Test that the child process exec failure actually makes
# it up to the parent process as the correct exception.
self.assertEqual(desired_exception.errno, e.errno)
self.assertEqual(desired_exception.strerror, e.strerror)
else:
self.fail("Expected OSError: %s" % desired_exception)
def test_exception_bad_args_0(self):
"""Test error in the child raised in the parent for a bad args[0]."""
desired_exception = self._get_chdir_exception()
try:
p = subprocess.Popen([self._nonexistent_dir, "-c", ""])
except OSError as e:
# Test that the child process exec failure actually makes
# it up to the parent process as the correct exception.
self.assertEqual(desired_exception.errno, e.errno)
self.assertEqual(desired_exception.strerror, e.strerror)
else:
self.fail("Expected OSError: %s" % desired_exception)
def test_restore_signals(self):
# Code coverage for both values of restore_signals to make sure it
# at least does not blow up.