2009/4/8 Vincent Povirk <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Dmitry Timoshkov <[email protected]> > wrote: >> A real user who is trying to get real work done won't run the python >> test suite. > > True. > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Henri Verbeet <[email protected]> wrote: >> Out of curiosity, why do the python tests even care if /bin/sh exists? > > The python tests run on multiple platforms, some of which have a > working /bin/sh. If it exists, certain ones (there are only two) will > start an sh process and read its output. >
Surely this is still a bug in the Python test suite though. They should know that "/bin/sh" is not technically a valid path on Windows/DOS systems, and it only works due to system magic translating /'s to \'s.
