[Python-Dev] Need help fixing failing Py3k Unittests in py3k-struni

[Steve Holden]

Michael Foord wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> On 7/11/07, Thomas Heller <theller at ctypes.org> wrote:
>>   
>>> Christian Heimes schrieb:
>>>     
>>>> By the way the ctypes unit tests are causing a segfault on my machine:
>>>> test_ctypes
>>>> Warning: could not import ctypes.test.test_numbers: unpack requires a
>>>> string argument of length 1
>>>> Segmentation fault
>>>>
>>>> Ubunutu 7.04 on i386 machine with an Intel P3.
>>>>       
>>> I can reproduce this.  ctypes.test.test_numbers is easy to fix, but there
>>> are other severe problems with ctypes.
>>>
>>> I would love to look into these, but I prefer debugging on Windows.
>>> However, the windows build does not work because the _fileio builtin
>>> module is missing from config.c.  Again, this is not so easy to fix,
>>> because the ftruncate function does not exist on Windows.
>>>     
>> I don't have a Windows box; contributions to fix this situation are welcome.
>>   
> 
> You would accept a donated Windows box ? (1/2 ;-)
> 
Please don't force Guido to spend valuable development time climbing 
*that* learning curve!

regards
  Steve
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