[Python-Dev] platform module testing

[Brett Cannon]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Benjamin Peterson
<musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:
> At the moment, the test for the platform module merely calls each
> function. I realize that this is a hard module to test well, but are
> there some assumptions we can make? For example, if sys.platform is
> 'java', can it be assumed that java_ver is going to return something
> which is not empty. When sys.platform is 'darwin' and the gestalt
> module is present, is it reasonable to require that a empty tuple not
> be returned?
>

Sounds reasonable to me. Probably the best way to verify is to do it
and see what the buildbots say.

-Brett