test_linuxaudiodev.py) are no longer run by default. This is
because they don't always work, depending on your hardware and
software. To run these tests, you must use an invocation like
./python Lib/test/regrtest.py -u audio test_ossaudiodev
exception, ResourceDenied. This is used to distinguish between tests that
are skipped for other reasons (platform support, missing data, etc.) from
those that are skipped because a "resource" has not been enabled. This
prevents those tests from being reported as unexpected skips for the
platform; those should only be considered unexpected skips if the resource
were enabled.
This patch updates regrtest.py to understand which
tests are normally skipped under Cygwin. The list of
tests was verified with the Cygwin Python maintainer.
The bsddb subproject is gone.
The _bsddb subproject is new.
There are problems here, but I'm out of time to work on this now. If
anyone can address an XXX comment or two in readme.txt, please do!
ths "should be" skipped depends on os.path.supports_unicode_filenames,
not really on the platform. Fiddled the expected-skip constructor
appropriately.
imports of test modules now import from the test package. Other
related oddities are also fixed (like DeprecationWarning filters that
weren't specifying the full import part, etc.). Also did a general
code cleanup to remove all "from test.test_support import *"'s. Other
from...import *'s weren't changed.
imports e.g. test_support must do so using an absolute package name
such as "import test.test_support" or "from test import test_support".
This also updates the README in Lib/test, and gets rid of the
duplicate data dirctory in Lib/test/data (replaced by
Lib/email/test/data).
Now Tim and Jack can have at it. :)
-f/--fromfile <filename>
option. This runs all and only the tests named in the file, in the
order given (although -x may weed that list, and -r may shuffle it).
Lines starting with '#' are ignored.
This goes a long way toward helping to automate the binary-search-like
procedure I keep reinventing by hand when a test fails due to interaction
among tests (no failure in isolation, and some unknown number of
predecessor tests need to run first -- now you can stick all the test
names in a file, and comment/uncomment blocks of lines until finding a
minimal set of predecessors).
