[Python-Dev] Python Tests

[Pranav Deshpande]

I just wanted to start contributing to open-source; that is all. I was
going to ask for guidance after I completed the initial steps( search for
beginner friendly bugs) and get a general idea of the code. How do I go
about doing this?

Regards,
Pranav

On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 9:42 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> What is it that you wanted to contribute? Unless it affects regular
> expressions  you probably needn't worry about that one test. (If you do,
> run the test by itself in verbose mode so you can debug why it is failing.)
>
> On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Pranav Deshpande <
> deshpande.v.pranav at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello, everyone. I wanted to contribute to Python so I began by following
>> the steps given here: https://docs.python.org/devguide/
>>
>> WHile executing
>>
>> ./python -m test -j3
>>
>> I encountered the following error:
>> 383 tests OK.
>>
>> 1 test failed:
>>     test_re
>>
>> 21 tests skipped:
>>     test_curses test_dbm_gnu test_dbm_ndbm test_devpoll test_kqueue
>>     test_msilib test_ossaudiodev test_smtpnet test_socketserver
>>     test_startfile test_timeout test_tix test_tk test_ttk_guionly
>>     test_urllib2net test_urllibnet test_winconsoleio test_winreg
>>     test_winsound test_xmlrpc_net test_zipfile64
>>
>> Total duration: 24 min 25 sec
>> Tests result: FAILURE
>>
>> How do I resolve this?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Pranav.
>>
>>
>>
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