[Python-checkins] peps: Updated status of test_popen2 on Windows.

[georg.brandl]

http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/8c06a6ebe54d
changeset:   96:8c06a6ebe54d
user:        Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com>
date:        Tue Aug 15 07:34:33 2000 +0000
summary:
  Updated status of test_popen2 on Windows.

files:
  pep-0200.txt |  12 +++++++-----
  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)


diff --git a/pep-0200.txt b/pep-0200.txt
--- a/pep-0200.txt
+++ b/pep-0200.txt
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
     [what are the "R" and "B" columns supposed to mean? - tim]
 
     test case         platform   R B    date reported
-    ---------         --------   --     -------------
+    ---------         --------   - -    -------------
     test_winreg2      Win32      X X    26-Jul-2000
         [still fails 15-Aug-2000 for me, on Win98 - tim
          test test_winreg2 failed -- Writing: 'Test Failed: testHives',
@@ -97,10 +97,12 @@
         ]
 
     test_popen2       Win32      X X    26-Jul-2000
-        [believe this was fix by /F]
         [still fails 15-Aug-2000 for me, on Win98 - tim
-         test test_popen2 crashed -- exceptions.WindowsError :
-         [Errno 2] The system cannot find the file specified
+             test test_popen2 crashed -- exceptions.AssertionError :
+         The problem is that the test uses "cat", but there is
+         no such thing under Windows (unless you install it).
+         So it's the test that's broken here, not (necessarily)
+         the code.
         ]
 
     test_fork1        Linux      X      26-Jul-2000     just SMP?
@@ -113,7 +115,7 @@
     the code it's testing is in trouble!
 
     test case         platform   R B    date reported
-    ---------         --------   --     -------------
+    ---------         --------   - -    -------------
     test_winreg        Win32     X X    26-Jul-2000
         [works 15-Aug-2000 for me, on Win98 - tim]
 

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