[New-bugs-announce] [issue27969] Suppress unnecessary message when running test_gdb

[Xiang Zhang]

New submission from Xiang Zhang:

Right now, when running test_gdb generates following message:

./python -m test test_gdb
Run tests sequentially
0:00:00 [1/1] test_gdb
*Python Exception <type 'exceptions.ImportError'> No module named gdb: 
*gdb: warning: 
*Could not load the Python gdb module from `/usr/local/share/gdb/python'.
*Limited Python support is available from the _gdb module.
*Suggest passing --data-directory=/path/to/gdb/data-directory.

test_gdb skipped -- Unable to parse output from gdb.Frame.select test
test_gdb skipped

1 test skipped:
    test_gdb

Total duration: 166 ms
Tests result: SUCCESS

The messages prefixed * are messages generated by invoked gdb command and I think they are not needed to prompt to users.

test_gdb.patch tries to suppress them. After applied, the messages cleaner.

./python -m test test_gdb
Run tests sequentially
0:00:00 [1/1] test_gdb
test_gdb skipped -- Unable to parse output from gdb.Frame.select test
test_gdb skipped

1 test skipped:
    test_gdb

Total duration: 159 ms
Tests result: SUCCESS

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components: Tests
files: test_gdb.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 274532
nosy: xiang.zhang
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Suppress unnecessary message when running test_gdb
type: enhancement
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.5, Python 3.6
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file44392/test_gdb.patch

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