[Python-Dev] tests expecting but not finding errors due to bug fixes

Alex Martelli aleaxit at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 25 07:52:13 EDT 2003

Previous message: [Python-Dev] test_bsddb blocks while testing popitem (?)
Next message: [Python-Dev] tests expecting but not finding errors due to bug fixes
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

Switching to the 2.3 maintenance branch (where test_bsdddb runs just fine),
I got "make test" failures on test_re.py.  Turns out that the 2.3-branch 
test_re.py was apparently not updated when the RE recursion bug was
fixed -- it still expects a couple of exceptions to be raised and they don't
get raised any more because the bugfix itself WAS backported.

On general principles, in cases of this ilk, IS it all right to just backport 
the corrected unit-test (from the 2.4 to the 2.3 branch) and commit the
fix, or should one be more circumspect about it...?


Alex

Previous message: [Python-Dev] test_bsddb blocks while testing popitem (?)
Next message: [Python-Dev] tests expecting but not finding errors due to bug fixes
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list