[Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

[Bill Janssen]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

> Bill Janssen wrote:
> > I've got parc-tiger-1 up and running again.  It's failing on test_tk,
> > which makes sense, because it's running as a background twisted process,
> > and thus can't access the window server.
> 
> It doesn't really make sense. It should skip the test, instead of
> failing it. I.e. aborting the Python process is definitely not a good
> response.

Yes, you're right.  It's a bug in the test.

Bill