[Python-Dev] 2.3.1 is (almost) a go

[Barry Warsaw]

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 03:15, Anthony Baxter wrote:
> Last chance for feedback on python2.3.1 ... :)
> 
> Draft of announce message at www.python.org/2.3.1/announce.txt

I pulled down rc2 and ran the tests randomly on RH9, with "-u all -r". 
I see that test_mimetypes failed unexpectedly:

test test_mimetypes failed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/Python-2.3.1/Lib/test/test_mimetypes.py", line 52, in
test_guess_all_types
    eq(all, ['.bat', '.c', '.h', '.ksh', '.pl', '.txt'])
  File "/tmp/Python-2.3.1/Lib/unittest.py", line 302, in failUnlessEqual
    raise self.failureException, \
AssertionError: ['.asc', '.bat', '.c', '.h', '.ksh', '.pl', '.txt'] !=
['.bat', '.c', '.h', '.ksh', '.pl', '.txt']


test_bsddb3 produced two locker killed messages, which didn't happen
last time I tested from the HEAD.  Then again I wasn't running the tests
with -r last time either, but I also understand that these tracebacks
can happen and don't cause the tests to fail.

In the first run, test_queue also failed, with this output:

test_queue
test test_queue failed -- blocking function '<bound method Queue.get of
<Queue.Queue instance at 0x402471cc>>' appeared not to block

Of these, it seems like the mimetypes one should be fixed before the
release.  I doubt I'll have time today to debug it, but I could probably
arrange to run another test on RH9 if need be.

-Barry