#11420: make test suite pass with -B/DONTWRITEBYTECODE set. Initial patch by Thomas Wouters.

Lib/distutils/tests/test_bdist_dumb.py

@@ -87,8 +87,9 @@ class BuildDumbTestCase(support.TempdirManager,
             fp.close()
 
         contents = sorted(os.path.basename(fn) for fn in contents)
-        wanted = ['foo-0.1-py%s.%s.egg-info' % sys.version_info[:2],
+        wanted = ['foo-0.1-py%s.%s.egg-info' % sys.version_info[:2], 'foo.py']
-                  'foo.py', 'foo.pyc']
+        if not sys.dont_write_bytecode:
+            wanted.append('foo.pyc')
         self.assertEqual(contents, sorted(wanted))
 
     def test_finalize_options(self):

Lib/test/test_import.py

@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ class ImportTests(unittest.TestCase):
                 unlink(source)
 
             try:
+                if not sys.dont_write_bytecode:
                     imp.reload(mod)
             except ImportError, err:
                 self.fail("import from .pyc/.pyo failed: %s" % err)
@@ -105,7 +106,10 @@ class ImportTests(unittest.TestCase):
         finally:
             del sys.path[0]
 
-    @unittest.skipUnless(os.name == 'posix', "test meaningful only on posix systems")
+    @unittest.skipUnless(os.name == 'posix',
+        "test meaningful only on posix systems")
+    @unittest.skipIf(sys.dont_write_bytecode,
+        "test meaningful only when writing bytecode")
     def test_execute_bit_not_copied(self):
         # Issue 6070: under posix .pyc files got their execute bit set if
         # the .py file had the execute bit set, but they aren't executable.
@@ -132,6 +136,8 @@ class ImportTests(unittest.TestCase):
             unload(TESTFN)
             del sys.path[0]
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(sys.dont_write_bytecode,
+        "test meaningful only when writing bytecode")
     def test_rewrite_pyc_with_read_only_source(self):
         # Issue 6074: a long time ago on posix, and more recently on Windows,
         # a read only source file resulted in a read only pyc file, which
@@ -441,6 +447,7 @@ func_filename = func.func_code.co_filename
         self.assertEqual(mod.func_filename, self.file_name)
         del sys.modules[self.module_name]
         mod = self.import_module()
+        if not sys.dont_write_bytecode:
             self.assertEqual(mod.module_filename, self.compiled_name)
         self.assertEqual(mod.code_filename, self.file_name)
         self.assertEqual(mod.func_filename, self.file_name)

Lib/test/test_runpy.py

@@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ class RunModuleTest(unittest.TestCase):
             del d1 # Ensure __loader__ entry doesn't keep file open
             __import__(mod_name)
             os.remove(mod_fname)
+            if not sys.dont_write_bytecode:
                 if verbose: print "Running from compiled:", mod_name
                 d2 = run_module(mod_name) # Read from bytecode
                 self.assertIn("x", d2)
@@ -192,6 +193,7 @@ class RunModuleTest(unittest.TestCase):
             del d1 # Ensure __loader__ entry doesn't keep file open
             __import__(mod_name)
             os.remove(mod_fname)
+            if not sys.dont_write_bytecode:
                 if verbose: print "Running from compiled:", pkg_name
                 d2 = run_module(pkg_name) # Read from bytecode
                 self.assertIn("x", d2)
@@ -246,6 +248,7 @@ from ..uncle.cousin import nephew
             del d1 # Ensure __loader__ entry doesn't keep file open
             __import__(mod_name)
             os.remove(mod_fname)
+            if not sys.dont_write_bytecode:
                 if verbose: print "Running from compiled:", mod_name
                 d2 = run_module(mod_name, run_name=run_name) # Read from bytecode
                 self.assertIn("__package__", d2)

Misc/NEWS

@@ -818,6 +818,9 @@ Extension Modules
 Tests
 -----
 
+- Issue #11420: make test suite pass with -B/DONTWRITEBYTECODE set.
+  Initial patch by Thomas Wouters.
+
 - Issue #17299: Add test coverage for cPickle with file objects and general IO
   objects.  Original patch by Aman Shah.