[Python-Dev] py3benchmark not working

[Mark Shannon]

Christian Heimes wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I tried to compare the py3k baseline with my randomhash branch but the
> benchmark suite is failing.
> 
> I've follewed the instruction
> 
> #   hg clone http://hg.python.org/benchmarks/ py2benchmarks
> #   mkdir py3benchmarks;
> #   cd py3benchmarks
> #   ../py2benchmarks/make_perf3.sh ../py2benchmarks
> #   python3.1 perf.py -b py3k old_py3k new_py3k
> 
> but the suite immediately bails out:
> 
[snip]
> "/media/ssd/heimes/python/py3benchmarks/lib/2to3/lib2to3/fixes/fix_operator.py",
> line 89, in _check_method
>     method = getattr(self, "_" + results["method"][0].value.encode("ascii"))
> TypeError: Can't convert 'bytes' object to str implicitly
> 

You can temporarily "fix" this by removing the .encode("ascii")
from line 89 in lib2to3/fixes/fix_operator.py

I'm not sure if this is a bug in 2to3 or the benchmark.

Cheers,
Mark