[New-bugs-announce] [issue37605] CI should not depend on gmane response

[Terry J. Reedy]

New submission from Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>:

On Travis, 'Documentation tests' passing is apparently required.  Line 23 of nntplib.rst is ">>> s = NNTP('news.gmane.org')"  I use gmane and occasional failures to respond are routine.  Being able to merge should not depend on this external site.

In addition to a real failure, the following happen on PR 14675 earlier today.

https://travis-ci.org/python/cpython/jobs/559289634

Warning, treated as error:
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File "library/nntplib.rst", line ?, in default
Failed example:
    s = NNTP('news.gmane.org')
Exception raised:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/home/travis/build/python/cpython/Lib/doctest.py", line 1328, in __run
        exec(compile(example.source, filename, "single",
      File "<doctest default[0]>", line 1, in <module>
        s = NNTP('news.gmane.org')
      File "/home/travis/build/python/cpython/Lib/nntplib.py", line 1050, in __init__
        _NNTPBase.__init__(self, file, host,
      File "/home/travis/build/python/cpython/Lib/nntplib.py", line 331, in __init__
        self.welcome = self._getresp()
      File "/home/travis/build/python/cpython/Lib/nntplib.py", line 456, in _getresp
        raise NNTPTemporaryError(resp)
    nntplib.NNTPTemporaryError: 400 load at 16.59, try later

Try later is what I do.  This exception should somehow be skipped.  I don't know anything about Travis and doctest tests and how flakey doctests are supposed to be handled. If nothing else, put the whole example is a try-except block?

>>> try:  # News sites can fail to respond.
...     s = NNTP('news.gmane.org')
...     ...
... except: # If site failure, try later.
...     pass

Since output varies, I presume output checking is suppressed.

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components: Tests
messages: 348023
nosy: pablogsal, terry.reedy, vstinner
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: CI should not depend on gmane response
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.9

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