New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr>: test.script_helper has a couple of dedicated functions to launch a Python interpreter instance in a subprocess. Unfortunately, it is little used and most test modules use their own ad hoc calls to subprocess instead.
Remedying the situation would require: - adding functions to script_helper (currently, the available functions merge stdout and stderr together, which is clearly undesireable) - perhaps improve the existing functions (kill_python() does a strange dance instead of calling communicate() on the subprocess.Popen object, is there a reason for that?) - convert most uses of subprocess.<some_func>([sys.executable, ...]) in the test suite to use script_helper instead This was suggested by Nick in issue477863. ---------- components: Tests messages: 112917 nosy: ezio.melotti, ncoghlan, pitrou priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Make test.script_helper more comprehensive, and use it in the test suite type: feature request versions: Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9517> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
