[Python-3000] test_profile failing

[Guido van Rossum]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:
> On Feb 29, 2008, at 11:16 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> > Am I the only one for whom test_profile and test_cProfile are failing
>  > with a current Py3k head checkout?
>
>
>  They were failing for me a couple of days ago; checking now, they
>  still are, and test_itertools has been added to the list of failing
>  tests:
>
>  test test_itertools failed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/Users/fdrake/projects/python/py3k/Lib/test/
>  test_itertools.py", line 698, in test_chain
>      self.assertRaises(TypeError, chain, N(s))
>  AssertionError: TypeError not raised by chain
>
>  This is on Mac OS X 10.5.2 with no local changes.  I did a "make
>  clean; make; make test" and still get the error.  I've no time to look
>  into it right now.

We should not release with failing tests. We've got to keep *some*
standard of quality.

It looks like the failures are shallow -- there's a "golden" expected
output which includes some silliness like the exact number of CPU
seconds used.

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)