[pypy-dev] Question on snake server test runs

[Antonio Cuni]

Hi Sanghyeon,

Sanghyeon Seo wrote:
> http://snake.cs.uni-duesseldorf.de/pypytest/summary.html
> 
> I added a py.test option to pretty-print Common Lisp source files, and
> tests on snake server started to fail. Samuele told me that it might
> depend on the working directory from which py.test is run, but no
> matter how I try, I couldn't reproduce the failure in my machine.
> 
> So my question is: how are tests run on snake server? How can I fix
> this failure?
> 
> E       if conftest.option.prettyprint:
>>       AttributeError: Values instance has no attribute 'prettyprint'

I had the same problem with gencli: I solved using an helper function 
that catches AttributeError and returns a default value instead, even if 
it seems more a hack than a solution. See translator/cli/option.py.

ciao Anto