[Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

>> I've got parc-tiger-1 up and running again.  It's failing on test_tk,
>> which makes sense, because it's running as a background twisted process,
>> and thus can't access the window server.  I should configure that out.
>>
>> I'm looking for documentation on how to configure the build slave so
>> that it skips this test.
> 
> It may be better to try to detect the "no window server" case and skip
> it in the test itself rather than in the build slave configuration.

Even better would be if Python wouldn't crash when you try to run Tk
commands without a window server. Instead of aborting Python, that
should raise an exception (which can then be detected as a test skip).

Regards,
Martin