Nick Coghlan gmail.com> writes:
> Given the other things regrtest cleans up between tests, I'm not sure
> why it doesn't also kill TESTFN, though.
Well, there's a function regrtest.cleanup_test_droppings which aims to do just
this, and it's called in a finally: block from regrtest.runtest. It's
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Vinay Sajip wrote:
> Sorry if this has come up before, but why do we couple the tests in this way,
> so
> that failure to clean up in one test causes drive-by failures in other,
> unrelated tests?
Personally, I just use the tempfile module in tests that I write
(h
I ran into an error today related to the use of support.TESTFN throughout the
regression test suite. In my Windows tests, test_base64 passed, but left a file
(named by support.TESTFN) lying around:
'test_base64' left behind file '@test_3532_tmp'
Much later in the run, a set of unrelated tests s
