[Python-Dev] Broken Test -- test_distutils

[Guilherme Polo]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
> In the past couple of days, test_distutils started failing.  It looks like a
> pure python error and may have been introduced by guilherme.polo's checkins:
>
>
> File "c:\py27\lib\distutils\tests\test_sdist.py", line 119, in
> test_make_distr
> ibution
>   spawn('tar --help')
>  File "c:\py27\lib\distutils\spawn.py", line 37, in spawn
>   _spawn_nt(cmd, search_path, dry_run=dry_run)
>  File "c:\py27\lib\distutils\spawn.py", line 70, in _spawn_nt
>   cmd = _nt_quote_args(cmd)
>  File "c:\py27\lib\distutils\spawn.py", line 61, in _nt_quote_args
>   args[i] = '"%s"' % args[i]
> TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment
>
> 1 test failed:
>   test_distutils
>
>

How did my commits introduced that error ?

>
> Raymond
>


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-- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves