[issue16450] test_missing_localfile masks problems in urlopen

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: I noticed this only after I had a misconfigured hostname on my mac. Fixing my hostname of course solved the problem, but in any case, changed the tests so that we wont be baffled by the unexpected (and misdirected error msg) from test for misconfigured hostnam

[issue16450] test_missing_localfile masks problems in urlopen

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 60c195e89c88 by Senthil Kumaran in branch '2.7': Fix #16450 test_missing_localfile testcase fails on misconfigured hostname. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/60c195e89c88 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python t

[issue16450] test_missing_localfile masks problems in urlopen

Changes by Senthil Kumaran : -- assignee: -> orsenthil nosy: +orsenthil ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsu

[issue16450] test_missing_localfile masks problems in urlopen

New submission from Hans Mulder: Due to a misconfiguration, urllib.thishost() raises an IOError on my laptop. This causes urllib.urlopen to raise an exception. A flaw in test_missing_localfile causes this exception to not be reported. The problem happens at line 230-235: try: