[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] the release gods are angry at python

Wed Mar 26 17:04:01 CET 2008

On 26/03/2008, Thomas Heller <theller at ctypes.org> wrote:
> What I would like to see is a way to disable certain tests on certain machines;
> maybe by setting environment variables?

Could this be done by something like the following (completely
untested!!!! no time at the moment) change to regrtest.py?

--- Lib\test\regrtest.py.orig	2008年03月26日 15:36:24.519590600 +0000
+++ Lib\test\regrtest.py	2008年03月26日 16:02:52.513001800 +0000
@@ -341,6 +341,12 @@
 stdtests.remove(arg)
 nottests[:0] = args
 args = []
+
+ exclusions = os.getenv('EXCLUDE_TESTS').split()
+ for excl in exclusions:
+ if excl in stdtests:
+ stdtests.remove(excl)
+
 tests = tests or args or findtests(testdir, stdtests, nottests)
 if single:
 tests = tests[:1]
Paul.
