New submission from Serhiy Storchaka: The distutils package is used in test_shutil to search and run external archivers. But using distutils can have side effects (see issue25607).
Proposed patch replaces distutils with standard functions for searching executables and running command, shutil.which() and subprocess.check_call(). ---------- components: Tests files: test_shutil_no_distutils.patch keywords: patch messages: 255023 nosy: eric.araujo, serhiy.storchaka, tarek priority: normal severity: normal stage: patch review status: open title: Don't use distutils in test_shutil type: enhancement versions: Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file41105/test_shutil_no_distutils.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25686> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
