[New-bugs-announce] [issue14779] test_buffer fails on OS X universal 64-/32-bit builds

[Ned Deily]

New submission from Ned Deily <nad at acm.org>:

test_buffer can fail when run on an OS X 64-/32-bit universal build of Python is run in 32-bit mode.

$ /usr/local/bin/python3.3 -m test test_buffer
[1/1] test_buffer
1 test OK.
$ /usr/local/bin/python3.3-32 -m test -v test_buffer
== CPython 3.3.0a3 (v3.3.0a3:0b53b70a40a0, May 1 2012, 11:39:35) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)]
==   Darwin-11.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit little-endian
==   /private/var/folders/fm/9wjgctqx61n796zt88qmmnxc0000gn/T/test_python_56263
Testing with flags: sys.flags(debug=0, inspect=0, interactive=0, optimize=0, dont_write_bytecode=0, no_user_site=0, no_site=0, ignore_environment=0, verbose=0, bytes_warning=0, quiet=0, hash_randomization=1)
[1/1] test_buffer
[...]
test_memoryview_construction (test.test_buffer.TestBufferProtocol) ... FAIL
test_ndarray_format_shape (test.test_buffer.TestBufferProtocol) ... FAIL
test_ndarray_format_strides (test.test_buffer.TestBufferProtocol) ... FAIL
test_ndarray_getbuf (test.test_buffer.TestBufferProtocol) ... FAIL
test_ndarray_multidim (test.test_buffer.TestBufferProtocol) ... FAIL
test_ndarray_slice_assign_single (test.test_buffer.TestBufferProtocol) ... FAIL
[...]

The test is incorrectly testing a compile-time configuration variable which is not meaningful for universal builds since each architecture can have different values.  Further, the platform.architecture fallback test is also unreliable; as noted in the docs for the platform module, sys.maxsize should be used for run-time tests.  The attached patch fixes the test for OS X.

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files: issueXXXXX_test_buffer.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 160382
nosy: ned.deily, skrah
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: test_buffer fails on OS X universal 64-/32-bit builds
versions: Python 3.3
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file25532/issueXXXXX_test_buffer.patch

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