[Python-Dev] test_itertools fails for trunk on x86 OS X machine

[Grig Gheorghiu]

On 9/21/06, Grig Gheorghiu <grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/21/06, Jack Diederich <jackdied at jackdied.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 03:28:04PM -0700, Grig Gheorghiu wrote:
> > > On 9/21/06, Jack Diederich <jackdied at jackdied.com> wrote:
> > > > The python binary is out of step with the test_itertools.py version.
> > > > You can generate this same error on your own box by reverting the
> > > > change to itertoolsmodule.c but leaving the new test in test_itertools.py
> > > >
> > > > I don't know why this only happened on that OSX buildslave
> > >
> > > Not sure what you mean by out of step. The binary was built out of the
> > > very latest itertoolsmodule.c, and test_itertools.py was also updated
> > > from svn. So they're both in sync IMO. That tests passes successfully
> > > on all the other buildslaves in the Pybots farm (x86 Ubuntu, Debian,
> > > Gentoo, RH9, AMD-64 Ubuntu)
> > >
> >
> > When I saw the failure, first I cursed (a lot).  Then I followed the repr
> > all the way down into stringobject.c, no dice.  Then I noticed that the
> > failure is exactly what you get if the test was updated but the old
> > module wasn't.
> >
> > Faced with the choice of believing in a really strange platform specific
> > bug in a commonly used routine that resulted in exactly the failure caused
> > by one of the two files being updated or believing a failure occurred in the
> > long chain of networks, disks, file systems, build tools, and operating
> > systems that would result in only one of the files being updated -
> > I went with the latter.
> >
> > I'll continue in my belief until my dying day or until someone with OSX
> > confirms it is a bug, whichever comes first.
> >
> > not-gonna-sweat-it-ly,
> >
> > -Jack
> > _______________________________________________
>
> OK, sorry for having caused you so much grief....I'll investigate some
> more on the Pybots side and I'll let you know what I find.
>
> Grig
>


Actually, that test fails also in the official Python buildbot farm,
on a g4 osx machine. See

http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/trunk/g4%20osx.4%20trunk/builds/1449/step-test/0

So it looks like it's an OS X specific issue.

Grig