[Python-Dev] fixing tests on windows
Giampaolo Rodola'
gnewsg at gmail.com
Tue Apr 1 21:09:56 CEST 2008
On 1 Apr, 21:03, "Giampaolo Rodola'" <gne... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 Apr, 18:27, "Steven Bethard" <steven.beth... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Facundo Batista
>
> > <facundobati... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 2008/4/1, Tim Golden <m... at timgolden.me.uk>:
> > > > If this is the thing to do, presumably test_support should
> > > > grow a "remove_file" which does something of this sort?
>
> > > +1 (I was thinking exactly that).
>
> > +1 here too. That looks like a great solution. Of course, once it's
> > in test_support, we need to fix *all* file removals in the test suite.
> > ;-)
>
> > Steve
>
> Why not just modifying test_support.unlink() like this?
> Surely more convenient than modifying the whole suite.
>
> def unlink(filename):
> try:
> if os.name == 'nt':
> os.rename(filename, filename + ".deleted")
> filename = filename + ".deleted"
> os.unlink(filename)
> except OSError:
> pass
Another solution, probably better:
def unlink(filename):
try:
os.unlink(filename)
except OSError:
if os.name == 'nt':
try:
os.rename(filename, filename + ".deleted")
os.unlink(filename + ".deleted")
except OSError:
pass
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