Message 213497 - Python tracker

Message213497

Author	rhettinger
Recipients	ncoghlan, ned.deily, neologix, pitrou, r.david.murray, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner, zach.ware
Date	2014-03-14.00:08:12
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Message-id	<1394755692.23.0.0804426257405.issue20910@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> Some tests use time.sleep() as a basic synchronization primitive, > because other synchronization primitive cannot be used. For example, > lock_tests.py tests locks and so cannot use lock in its tests. > The problem is that slow buildbots require long sleep. It makes > the test suite slow, whereas fast buildbots could use short lseep Would it be possible to create a decorator to make these test adaptive (run once with a short sleep and retry with a long sleep if the first fails)?

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> Some tests use time.sleep() as a basic synchronization primitive,
> because other synchronization primitive cannot be used. For example,
> lock_tests.py tests locks and so cannot use lock in its tests.
> The problem is that slow buildbots require long sleep. It makes 
> the test suite slow, whereas fast buildbots could use short lseep

Would it be possible to create a decorator to make these test adaptive (run once with a short sleep and retry with a long sleep if the first fails)?

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