New submission from Martin Panter: In /Lib/ctypes/test/test_values.py, three out of the five test cases are only run on Windows. There is a comment saying “This test only works when python itself is a dll/shared library”, and the tests run fine on Linux. So I propose to remove the Windows-only restriction, and rename the class from Win_ValuesTestCase to PythonValuesTestCase.
The immediate benefit for me is that I can see on Linux when I need to update one of those tests before I break a Windows builtbot :) This test used to be completely disabled (probably by accident), and was enabled for Windows only in revision 6f63fff5c120. There was a comment <https://bugs.python.org/issue19493#msg206649> by Zach wondering if it shouldn’t be Windows-specific. ---------- components: Tests, ctypes files: python-values.patch keywords: patch messages: 254623 nosy: martin.panter, zach.ware priority: normal severity: normal stage: patch review status: open title: Enable ctypes.test.test_values.Win_ValuesTestCase for non-Windows type: enhancement versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file41034/python-values.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25622> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
