[Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Need help fixing failing Py3k Unittests in py3k-struni

[Guido van Rossum]

On 7/11/07, Thomas Heller <theller at ctypes.org> wrote:
> Christian Heimes schrieb:
> >
> > By the way the ctypes unit tests are causing a segfault on my machine:
> > test_ctypes
> > Warning: could not import ctypes.test.test_numbers: unpack requires a
> > string argument of length 1
> > Segmentation fault
> >
> > Ubunutu 7.04 on i386 machine with an Intel P3.
>
> I can reproduce this.  ctypes.test.test_numbers is easy to fix, but there
> are other severe problems with ctypes.
>
> I would love to look into these, but I prefer debugging on Windows.
> However, the windows build does not work because the _fileio builtin
> module is missing from config.c.  Again, this is not so easy to fix,
> because the ftruncate function does not exist on Windows.

I don't have a Windows box; contributions to fix this situation are welcome.

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