[Python-3000] need help fixing broken tests in py3k-pep3137 branch

[Guido van Rossum]

On 11/3/07, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> > test_bsddb3
>
> The big failure spewing out all of this stuff about an assert in
> getGenre() failing is because the code in
> Modules/_bsddb.c:_db_associateCallback() uses "y#' to build an
> argument tuple when the test expects a bytes type and not a buffer
> type.  Now I searched in Python/modsupport.c and there is not a single
> PyString_*() call in there.  What format string are we supposed to use
> for PyString/bytes instances?  Should we change 'y' from
> PyBytes/buffer to PyString/bytes, or add yet another format string?

I think we should change 'y' and 'y#' to use PyString. This seems to
fix most of test_bsddb3; I'll have to check how much else it breaks
before I check it in.

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