[issue12407] test_subinterps fails on Windows

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Fixed, thank you. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed versions: +Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue12407] test_subinterps fails on Windows

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 5cae52417b9d by Antoine Pitrou in branch 'default': Issue #12407: Explicitly skip test_capi.EmbeddingTest under Windows. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/5cae52417b9d -- ___ Python tracker

[issue12407] test_subinterps fails on Windows

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 7c60c1b41da9 by Antoine Pitrou in branch '3.2': Issue #12407: Explicitly skip test_capi.EmbeddingTest under Windows. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/7c60c1b41da9 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue12407] test_subinterps fails on Windows

Cesare Di Mauro added the comment: Unfortunately this test isn't skip on normal setup (using VisualStudio 2008 Express). I've updated the clone just a few minutes ago, rebuilt Python (in Debug mode), and that's what happened: D:\CPython>PCbuild\python_d.exe Lib\test\test_capi.py test_instance

[issue12407] test_subinterps fails on Windows

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I don't really understand why you need this. Under normal setups, the test is already properly skipped under Windows, since there's no rule to build the "Modules/_testembed" with MSVC. Or are you talking about another kind of setup? Cygwin? mingw? --

[issue12407] test_subinterps fails on Windows

New submission from Cesare Di Mauro : This test fails on Windows because it tries to change the working folder to an empty string. Anyway, even changing: os.chdir(basepath) with: os.chdir(basepath or '.') it fails because the subprocess tries to execute an ELF file ('Modules/_testembed'