On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Bill Janssen wrote:

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On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 3:31 AM, wrote:

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Neal> Anything that connects to a remote host is definitely flaky.

Would it maybe help to set up a dedicated host (or virtual host) to serve as the sole target of all network tests?

It would help, but not fix the problem. There will still be transient network issues that come up.

We really need to be able to wrap a timeout around any individual test, perhaps throwing a TimeoutException if the timeout is reached, and have the ability to regard a TimeoutException as not being a "failure".

Something like: @contextmanager def timeout(max_time): def RaiseTimeout(signal, frame): raise TimeoutException # Why don't we have a context manager for the next line? old_alarm = signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, RaiseTimeout) try: signal.alarm(max_time) try: yield finally: signal.alarm(0) finally: signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, old_alarm) with appropriate fallbacks for Windows. I may not be poking at test_support for a bit, so anyone else is welcome to check that in, or a fixed version of it, whenever they're fixing a timing-out test. Someone else will have to implement the support in regrtest, although I wouldn't mind having it treat a timeout as a failure, as long as it's easier to diagnose than the SIGKILL it currently uses for timeouts. -- Namasté, Jeffrey Yasskin