[Python-Dev] test_pwd is really slow

[Guido van Rossum]

> I've been having trouble running the tests lately, because test_pwd is
> really slow.  It's a fairly trivial set of tests -- checking the types
> of return values and cross-checking getpwall() vs.
> getpwnam()/getpwuid().  The problem is if your password database is
> provided by LDAP and is really big, the test takes an impractically
> long time.
> 
> Would anyone object if I changed the test suite to require some
> resource to run test_pwd?  Or should I just make some local change to
> disable it?

How about instead limiting the number of entries checked to the first
100?  Try changing

        entries = pwd.getpwall()

into

        entries = pwd.getpwall()[:100]

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