[Python-Dev] Python Tests

Camilla camillamon at gmail.com
Sun May 14 14:38:55 EDT 2017


hi Pranav,
the core-mentorship mailing list is a friendly group that can help you get
started and answer questions. You can find out more about the Python Core
Mentorship <https://www.python.org/dev/core-mentorship/> initiative here.

Kind regards,
Camilla

2017-05-14 19:24 GMT+01:00 Pranav Deshpande <deshpande.v.pranav at gmail.com>:

> 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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