Is there a quick & accurate way to test a python install?

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 15 December 2012 21:52:00 Terry Reedy did opine:

> On 12/15/2012 9:21 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Saturday 15 December 2012 21:19:37 Terry Reedy did opine:
> >> On 12/15/2012 8:38 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> 
> >> see
> >> 26.11.2.
> > 
> > I'm not a python guru, Terry, so you will have to expand on this
> > 26.11.2.
> 
> http://docs.python.org/3/library/test.html#running-tests-using-the-comma
> nd-line-interface

This is 2.6, on ubuntu-10.04.4 LTS
 
> 3.x on command line: python -m test
> "Under the hood, it uses test.regrtest; the call python -m test.regrtest
> used in previous Python versions [ie, 2.x] still works)."
> 
> Followed by more options and os specifics. It is also possible to run
> interactively. 'import test; test.main()' may do it, but it have been
> awhile and is not documented.

I googled and found something like that, but the machine thats bad throws 
the same error stanza as one that seems to work.  From the machine with the 
problem:

gene at lathe:/usr/lib/python2.6/test$ python -m test.regrtest
test_grammar
test_grammar skipped -- No module named test_grammar
test_opcodes
test_opcodes skipped -- No module named test_opcodes
test_dict
test_dict skipped -- No module named test_dict
test_builtin
test_builtin skipped -- No module named test_builtin
test_exceptions
test_exceptions skipped -- No module named test_exceptions
test_types
test_types skipped -- No module named test_types
test_unittest
test_unittest skipped -- No module named test_unittest
test_doctest
test_doctest skipped -- No module named test_doctest
test_doctest2
test_doctest2 skipped -- No module named test_doctest2
9 tests skipped:
    test_builtin test_dict test_doctest test_doctest2 test_exceptions
    test_grammar test_opcodes test_types test_unittest
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/runpy.py", line 122, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/runpy.py", line 34, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/test/regrtest.py", line 1199, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/test/regrtest.py", line 423, in main
    e = _ExpectedSkips()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/test/regrtest.py", line 1112, in __init__
    from test import test_timeout
ImportError: cannot import name test_timeout
gene at lathe:/usr/lib/python2.6/test$ 

I think that looks identical to this machine, given the identical command 
line.

Any other ideas, or is the above all foobar?

Thanks Terry.

Cheers, Gene
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