[python-committers] [Infrastructure] test suite dependencies on www.python.org

[Senthil Kumaran]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 8:27 PM, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:

> While working on tests at the sprint I was reminded that there are
> various tests in the Python standard library that depend on resources in
> specific resources in specific locations at python.org.  We will need
> a plan for finding and dealing with these before (or as?) the new web
> site is turned up.
>
> Example:
>
>     request = urllib.request.Request("http://www.python.org/~jeremy/")
>
> And then there are things like:
>
>     h = client.HTTPSConnection('svn.python.org', 443, context=context)
>

Tests which are accessible over HTTP can still remain the same, for
others, I shall look for alternatives.
But yeah, these tests (or potential test failures) should not be be a
blocker for the Infrastructure team.

Thanks,
Senthil