[Python-Dev] Python Unit Tests

[Nick Coghlan]

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:00 AM, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:
> There are some ResourceWarnings we haven't cured yet (the ResourceWarning is
> a fairly new innovation).  I'm not sure why they don't show up when
> you run the tests individually.

Almost certainly the missing "-uall" meant the relevant tests didn't
actually run the second time around.

>> 9 skips unexpected on linux2:
>>     test_bz2 test_dbm_gnu test_dbm_ndbm test_readline test_ssl
>>     test_tcl test_tk test_ttk_guionly test_ttk_textonly
>
> These would be because you don't have the correct system/development
> libraries installed for bz2, gnudbm, ndbm, readline, openssl,
> tcl, and tk when you compiled your Python.  So, these skips are
> actually expected if you don't have those libraries, but if you want
> a complete development/test environment you should install the
> necessary packages and recompile.

I put together a list a while back of the minimal set of dev packages
needed to do a full Python build on Kubuntu:
http://www.boredomandlaziness.org/2010/01/kubuntu-dev-packages-to-build-python.html

The apt-get build dependencies command added as a comment to that post
should work on any apt-based Linux variant (although, at least on
Kubuntu, it brings down quite a lot of stuff you don't actually need
in order to build Python). Presumably there's something similar
available for other packaging systems (if not, the minimal package
list may still provide a useful starting point)

I don't believe anything that platform specific is in the dev guide,
though (it wasn't in the old README files, that's why I made my own
list for later reference).

Cheers,
Nick.

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