[Python-Dev] platform module testing

[Christian Heimes]

Benjamin Peterson schrieb:
> At the moment, the test for the platform module merely calls each
> function. I realize that this is a hard module to test well, but are
> there some assumptions we can make? For example, if sys.platform is
> 'java', can it be assumed that java_ver is going to return something
> which is not empty. When sys.platform is 'darwin' and the gestalt
> module is present, is it reasonable to require that a empty tuple not
> be returned?

A student has created a patch during the GHOP contest which adds some
features and tests for Linux. AFAIK the patch hasn't been applied yet.
See http://bugs.python.org/issue1322

Christian