[New-bugs-announce] [issue27748] Simplify test_winsound
Zachary Ware
report at bugs.python.org
Fri Aug 12 13:12:36 EDT 2016
New submission from Zachary Ware:
test_winsound is rather annoying. It currently attempts to determine whether a sound card is present, and whether particular system sounds are available. These checks are fragile at best, and I routinely see failures that shouldn't be. In particular, if I have an open RDP session to my ware-win81-release buildbot, test_winsound fails because it thinks the sounds should fail to play, but instead they succeed.
Rather than attempt to make the checks more robust, I suggest that we instead rip out the checks and simply ensure that each call that might succeed either returns normally or raises RuntimeError. After all, we can't actually test whether a sound really played or not.
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assignee: zach.ware
components: Tests, Windows
files: simplify_test_winsound.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 272546
nosy: paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: low
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: Simplify test_winsound
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.5, Python 3.6
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file44089/simplify_test_winsound.diff
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