test_format fails (was: Re: RELEASED Python 2.4, alpha 1)
Tim Peters
tim.peters at gmail.com
Tue Jul 13 22:09:34 EDT 2004
[Irmen de Jong]
,,,
> As Michael Hudson pointed out it's probably a test that
> messes with the locale settings and forgets to set them back,
> or some such.
In case you don't already know it, regrtest.py's little-used -f
argument lets you specify a file, containing the names of the tests
you want to run. It ignore lines in the file starting with '#'. So
it's a convenient way to do a binary-search kind of reduction when
looking for a minimal *set* of failing tests: edit the file, run,
stick '#' in front of half the remaining lines if it still fails then,
etc.
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