[Python-Dev] test_socketserver fails

[Guido van Rossum]

> While I can't check it in, I fiddled test_socketserver to use test_main()
> too, and now it runs fine when run via regrtest (but does not, and cannot be
> made to, run as a side-effect of getting imported -- requires
> 
> >>> from test import test_socketserver
> >>> test_socketserver.test_main()
> 
> instead, if you want to do it that way).
> 
> My question now is *should* it run under regrtest by default?  Or should it
> require the network resource (regrtest "-u network")?  On Win98SE, it takes
> about 20 seconds to run.

The time is not the problem, but when you don't have networking
properly configured, it will take a lot longer for the DNS requests to
time out, so I propose it should require the network resource.

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