[Python-Dev] test_bsddb185 failing under OS X

[Skip Montanaro]

Brett,

I goofed a bit in my (private) note to you yesterday.  anydbm._name isn't of
interest.  It's anydbm._defaultmod.  On my system, if I mv Lib/bsddb to
Lib/bsddb- I no longer have the bsddb package available (as you said you
didn't).  In that situation, for me, anydbm._defaultmod is the gdbm module.
All three tests succeed:

    % ./python.exe ../Lib/test/test_bsddb185.py
    test_anydbm_create (__main__.Bsddb185Tests) ... ok
    test_open_existing_hash (__main__.Bsddb185Tests) ... ok
    test_whichdb (__main__.Bsddb185Tests) ... ok

If I delete gdbm.so I get dbm as anydbm._defaultmod.  Again, success:

    % ./python.exe ../Lib/test/test_bsddb185.py
    test_anydbm_create (__main__.Bsddb185Tests) ... ok
    test_open_existing_hash (__main__.Bsddb185Tests) ... ok
    test_whichdb (__main__.Bsddb185Tests) ... ok

Delete dbm.so.  Run again.  Now dumbdbm is anydbm._defaultmod.  Run again.
Success again:

    % ./python.exe ../Lib/test/test_bsddb185.py
    test_anydbm_create (__main__.Bsddb185Tests) ... ok
    test_open_existing_hash (__main__.Bsddb185Tests) ... ok
    test_whichdb (__main__.Bsddb185Tests) ... ok

In short, I can't reproduce your error.  Can you do some more debugging to
see why your anydbm.open seems to be calling bsddb185.open?

Thx,

Skip