[IPython-dev] Frontend-sync branch updated, and test failures

[Gael Varoquaux]

I have done a few tweaks in the frontend branch (mainly to be able to pass
in a namespace and not have it duplicated, but kept as a reference). It
would be nice if it where merged before the release. The changes are
minor.

On the other hand, I get a score of test failures with latest bzr. A
bunch of them are due to the fact that I don't have foolscap install. I
thing they should simply be skipped when foolscap is not there. Another
bunch of them look like:

======================================================================
ERROR: Doctest: IPython.strdispatch.StrDispatch
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/IPython_doctest_plugin-0.1-py2.5.egg/ipdoctest.py",
line 356, in runTest
    clear_globs=False)
  File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/IPython_doctest_plugin-0.1-py2.5.egg/ipdoctest.py",
line 643, in run
    compileflags,out,clear_globs)
  File
"/home/gvaroquaux/dev/ipython/ipython-frontend/IPython/genutils.py", line
874, in f
    out = func(*a,**k)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/doctest.py", line 1361, in run
    return self.__run(test, compileflags, out)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/doctest.py", line 1244, in __run
    if check(example.want, got, self.optionflags):
  File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/IPython_doctest_plugin-0.1-py2.5.egg/ipdoctest.py",
line 285, in check_output
    optionflags)
TypeError: unbound method check_output() must be called with
OutputChecker instance as first argument (got IPDoctestOutputChecker
instance instead)

I am having a hard time distinguish signal from noise in my test result.

Gaël