[Python-ideas] Move some regrtest or test.support features into unittest?

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Tue Sep 19 09:08:18 EDT 2017


>> * --timeout: watchdog killing the test if the run time exceed the
>> timeout in seconds (use faulthandler.dump_traceback_later)
>
> This feature looks functionally similar to limiting memory usage.

Hum, I don't think so. Limiting the memory usage doesn't catch
deadlocks for example.

Victor


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