[Python-Dev] setup.py deleting files (Was: SSL support in _socket)

[Michael Hudson]

Martin von Loewis <loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de> writes:

> I now recall why setup.py deletes modules that cannot be imported: If
> they would be left there, the test cases would fail with the
> ImportError. People had been complaining that they get testsuite
> failures, so we changed setup.py to remove the modules which clearly
> don't work.

Huh?  ImportErrors cause skips, not failures ... don't they?

Cheers,
M.

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