From f02862305ba012fc7ff7e9aa7b1d51096d1f250d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremy Hylton Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 03:03:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] add sterner warning about test case problems note error in dictionary comparison that raises exception --- pep-0200.txt | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/pep-0200.txt b/pep-0200.txt index 347ef01c7..0119272de 100644 --- a/pep-0200.txt +++ b/pep-0200.txt @@ -74,6 +74,26 @@ Guidelines for submitting patches and making changes an Open Source license. Do not contribute code if it can't be released this way. +Failing test cases need to get fixed + + We need to resolve errors in the regression test suite quickly. + Changes should not be committed to the CVS tree unless the + regression test runs cleanly with the changes applied. If it + fails, there may be bugs lurking in the code. (There may be bugs + anyway, but that's another matter.) If the test cases are known + to fail, they serve no useful purpose. + + The current test suite runs correctly on my Linux box (July 26). + Heard reports that test_fork1 fails on some Linux boxes and that + test_winreg and test_winreg32 fail on Windows. + +Open items -- should be done/fixed + + Decoding errors when comparing strings. There is a dictionary bug + that prevents objects from being accessible when an exception is + raised during hashing or comparison. + + Accepted and completed