Bugs in Python 1.6 alpha 1

[Nick Maclaren]

In article <m33dp211m1.fsf at atrus.jesus.cam.ac.uk>, Michael Hudson <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> writes:
|> nmm1 at cus.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren) writes:
|> 
|> >     6) test_unicode fails on Hitachi systems -- Writing: '*', expected:
|> > 'T'.  But only if -v is NOT specified!  Again, I failed to tie it down,
|> > and it looks like a test harness problem.
|> 
|> That's the way regrtest works; if you specify `-v' all output goes to
|> stdout, if you specify `-g' it goes into the output directory and if
|> you specify neither it goes into some internal buffer to be compared
|> with what's in the output directory.
|> 
|> A bit odd, yes.  I don't know if it's a deliberate behaviour (doubt
|> it).

Oh, I see.  I misread the comments at the beginning.  It doesn't
exactly make it easy to tie down problems in the test harness ....
Never mind - it isn't an important problem.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren,
University of Cambridge Computing Service,
New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QG, England.
Email:  nmm1 at cam.ac.uk
Tel.:  +44 1223 334761    Fax:  +44 1223 334679