[Python-Dev] Unittest/doctest formatting differences in 2.7a1?

[exarkun at twistedmatrix.com]

On 05:11 pm, lregebro at jarn.com wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 17:34, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> 
>wrote:
>>Can you be more specific?
>
>Only with an insane amount of work. I'll hold that off for a while.

I don't know if this is related at all (and I guess we won't until 
Lennart can be more specific :), but here are some Twisted unit test 
failures which are probably due to unittest changes in 2.7:

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[FAIL]: twisted.trial.test.test_loader.LoaderTest.test_sortCases

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File 
"/home/buildslave/pybot/trunk.glass-x86/build/Twisted/twisted/trial/test/test_loader.py", 
line 167, in test_sortCases
    [test._testMethodName for test in suite._tests])
twisted.trial.unittest.FailTest: not equal:
a = ['test_b', 'test_c', 'test_a']
b = ['test_c', 'test_b', 'test_a']

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[FAIL]: twisted.trial.test.test_loader.ZipLoadingTest.test_sortCases

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File 
"/home/buildslave/pybot/trunk.glass-x86/build/Twisted/twisted/trial/test/test_loader.py", 
line 167, in test_sortCases
    [test._testMethodName for test in suite._tests])
twisted.trial.unittest.FailTest: not equal:
a = ['test_b', 'test_c', 'test_a']
b = ['test_c', 'test_b', 'test_a']

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[FAIL]: twisted.trial.test.test_tests.TestSkipMethods.test_reasons

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File 
"/home/buildslave/pybot/trunk.glass-x86/build/Twisted/twisted/trial/test/test_tests.py", 
line 143, in test_reasons
    str(reason))
twisted.trial.unittest.FailTest: not equal:
a = 'skip1 (twisted.trial.test.test_tests.SkippingTests)'
b = 'skip1'

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[FAIL]: twisted.trial.test.test_class.AttributeSharing.test_shared

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File 
"/home/buildslave/pybot/trunk.glass-x86/build/Twisted/twisted/trial/test/test_class.py", 
line 131, in test_shared
    'test_2')
twisted.trial.unittest.FailTest: not equal:
a = 'test_2 (twisted.trial.test.test_class.ClassAttributeSharer)'
b = 'test_2'

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I'm not opposed to the improvement of unittest (or any part of Python). 
Perhaps more of the improvements can be provided in new APIs rather than 
by changing the behavior of existing APIs, though.

Jean-Paul