Message 150731 - Python tracker

Message150731

Author	zbysz
Recipients	Arfrever, amaury.forgeotdarc, denilsonsa, giampaolo.rodola, loewis, neologix, pitrou, rosslagerwall, vstinner, zbysz
Date	2012-01-06.13:27:10
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Message-id	<1325856431.52.0.541848499517.issue13609@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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One more comment on $COLUMNS overriding the actual terminal size: > Zbyszek, I just looked at [1] and I disagree that the environment > variable should have higher precedence. In fact, I believe it should > have lower precedence, and should be used as a fallback. To fix issue #9553 "test_argparse.py: 80 failures if COLUMNS env var set to a value other than 80", sys.env['COLUMNS']=80 is set during tests. If issue #13041 is fixed and a real terminal size is used, then unless $COLUMNS have higher preference, the tests would break again.

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One more comment on $COLUMNS overriding the actual terminal size:

> Zbyszek, I just looked at [1] and I disagree that the environment
> variable should have higher precedence. In fact, I believe it should
> have lower precedence, and should be used as a fallback.

To fix issue #9553 "test_argparse.py: 80 failures if COLUMNS env var set to a value other than 80", sys.env['COLUMNS']=80 is set during tests.
If issue #13041 is fixed and a real terminal size is used, then
unless $COLUMNS have higher preference, the tests would break again.

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2012-01-06 13:27:11	zbysz	set	recipients: + zbysz, loewis, amaury.forgeotdarc, pitrou, vstinner, giampaolo.rodola, Arfrever, denilsonsa, neologix, rosslagerwall
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