[issue6484] No unit test for mailcap module

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> added the comment:

The buildbots are reporting a test failure on Windows:

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FAIL: test_listmailcapfiles (test.test_mailcap.HelperFunctionTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\cygwin\home\db3l\buildarea\3.x.bolen-windows\build\lib\test\test_mailcap.py", line 74, in test_listmailcapfiles
    self.assertEqual(env_mailcaps, mcfiles)
AssertionError: Lists differ: ['/testdir1/.mailcap', '/testd... != ['/testdir1/.mailcap;/testdir2...

First differing element 0:
/testdir1/.mailcap
/testdir1/.mailcap;/testdir2/mailcap

First list contains 1 additional elements.
First extra element 1:
/testdir2/mailcap

- ['/testdir1/.mailcap', '/testdir2/mailcap']
?                     ^^^^

+ ['/testdir1/.mailcap;/testdir2/mailcap']
?                     ^

There's a discrepancy between the test (uses os.pathsep) and the mailcap module (hardcoded to use ':' on all platforms).

I suspect the test is actually right and the module is wrong, but I don't know enough about mailcap to be sure. Anyone else?

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status: closed -> open

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