[Pythonmac-SIG] MacPython 2.2.2 final candidate

[Jack Jansen]

On dinsdag, oktober 29, 2002, at 10:17 , Daniel wrote:

> The output is below...
>
> I have two accounts on my machine. One has admin privileges and 
> the other doesn't. Normally the way I do things is, install 
> programs from my admin account but run them from my user 
> account. That is what I did with the Python distribution. I ran 
> the installer from my admin account and installed the package 
> in the /Applications directory. Then I logged out and logged in 
> under my user account to actually run the program. The result 
> is below.
>
> If you wish, I can run it from my admin account and see what happens.
>
[...]
> test test_builtin crashed -- exceptions.IOError: [Errno 13] 
> Permission denied: '@test'
[25 other similar permission failures removed]

This is an interesting bug you found: the bug is really with 
Python's test suite. The test suite expects to have write 
permission in Python's Lib/test directory (or somewhere 
thereabouts). The bug isn't mac-specific, but it's triggered by 
person A doing the install and person B running the test set.

Could you file a bug report at sourceforge? At the very least 
the test set should detect this situation and print a warning 
that you may experience random failures that do not point to 
problems with the python installation, I guess...
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