[Python-Dev] test_pwd failing

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Tue, 15 Apr 2003 11:18:02 -0400


Somebody just changed the pwd module.  I now get these errors when
running test_pwd:

[guido@odiug linux]$ ./python ../Lib/test/regrtest.py test_pwd
test_pwd
test test_pwd failed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/mnt/home/guido/projects/python/dist/src/Lib/test/test_pwd.py", line 29, in test_values
    self.assertEqual(pwd.getpwuid(e.pw_uid), e)
  File "/mnt/home/guido/projects/python/dist/src/Lib/unittest.py", line 292, in failUnlessEqual
    raise self.failureException, \
AssertionError: ('guido', 'x', 4102, 4102, 'Guido van Rossum', '/home/guido', '/bin/bash') != ('guido1', 'x', 4102, 4102, 'Guido van Rossum', '/home/guido1', '/bin/bash')

1 test failed:
    test_pwd
[guido@odiug linux]$ 

The last two lines of my /etc/passwd file are:

guido:x:4102:4102:Guido van Rossum:/home/guido:/bin/bash
guido1:x:4102:4102:Guido van Rossum:/home/guido1:/bin/bash

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)