[Python-3000] How best to handle failing tests in struni?

[Guido van Rossum]

Check out what the dbm-based modules do. I believe they use strings
for keys and bytes for values, and if the keys are unicode, it
converts them to UTF-8.

On 6/19/07, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> After reading Guido's blog post and noticing his comment about lack of
> delegation, I decided to delegate to myself a look at struni and what
> tests were failing (which turned out to be a lot).
>
> I just started at the beginning and so that meant looking at
> test_anydbm.  That's failing because _bsddb.c requires PyInt_Check or
> PyString_Check to pass for keys.  That doesn't work in a world where
> string constants are all Unicode.  =)
>
> So, my question is how best to handle this test (and thus other tests
> like it).  Should it just continue to fail until someone fixes
> _bsddb.c to accept Unicode keys (and thus start up a FAILING file
> listing the various tests that are failing and doc which ones are
> expected to fail until something specific changes)?  Or do we silence
> the failure by making the constants pass through str8?  Or should str8
> not even be used at all since (I assume) it won't survive the merge
> back into p3yk?
>
> -Brett
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