[Python-Dev] red buildbots on 2.7

[Paul Moore]

On 21 June 2010 23:19, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 June 2010 22:57, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
>>> Two of the other failures I'm pretty sure are problems in the test suite
>>> rather than bugs (as Bill said) and I'm not sure about the ctypes issue.
>>> Just starting a full build here.
>>
>> Right now I'm *only* seeing these two failures on Mac OS X (10.6.4):
>>
>>    test_posix test_urllib2_localnet
>
> I'm still seeing a test_ctypes failure (on Windows XP). Not sure if
> it's the same one Bill was seeing:
>
> FAIL: test_issue_8959_b (ctypes.test.test_callbacks.SampleCallbacksTestCase)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "C:\buildslave\trunk.moore-windows\build\lib\ctypes\test\test_callbacks.py",
> line 208, in test_issue_8959_b
>    self.assertFalse(windowCount == 0)
> AssertionError: True is not False
>
> Looks like this test was added today, and counts the windows. As my
> buildbot is running as a service, and I generally leave it running
> when logged off, a window count of 0 may well be correct - I can't be
> sure. So my view is that it's possibly a bug in the test - but it
> could do with someone more expert to confirm this.
>
> I've got a build running at the moment, when it's finished I'll rerun
> the trunk build (I currently have a disconnected session with a window
> open, I'll see if that makes it pass).

Yes, looks like it's a bug in the test. http://bugs.python.org/issue9055 raised.

Paul.