[Python-Dev] make test

[R. David Murray]

On Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:48:41 +0400, Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name> wrote:
> Hello.
> 
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> On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 11:21:34AM +0800, Xu Wanglin <xwl0765 at 126.com> wrote:
> > ImportError: No module named 'test.test_idna'
> 
>    Really, there is no module test.test_idna. Look into Lib/test/ yourself.

Xu's confusion arises from the fact that the test is named test_idna,
but that is actually the name of the test *within* the test file that
is named to the right of that name in the unittest output.

There is a bug in the issue tracker for having unittest print out the
complete path to the individual test in a cut-and-pasteable fashion.
Perhaps someone will be motivated to work on a fix :)

--David

PS: as long as I'm writing this, Xu, that error you got looks like a
transient error possibly caused by your local name server...if that is
the only failure you got, your Python is working perfectly fine and you
can go ahead and install/use it.  But as Oleg said, you will get much
better and faster help for this kind of question from python-list.