New submission from Zachary Ware: test_winsound is rather annoying. It currently attempts to determine whether a sound card is present, and whether particular system sounds are available. These checks are fragile at best, and I routinely see failures that shouldn't be. In particular, if I have an open RDP session to my ware-win81-release buildbot, test_winsound fails because it thinks the sounds should fail to play, but instead they succeed.
Rather than attempt to make the checks more robust, I suggest that we instead rip out the checks and simply ensure that each call that might succeed either returns normally or raises RuntimeError. After all, we can't actually test whether a sound really played or not. ---------- assignee: zach.ware components: Tests, Windows files: simplify_test_winsound.diff keywords: patch messages: 272546 nosy: paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware priority: low severity: normal stage: patch review status: open title: Simplify test_winsound type: behavior versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.5, Python 3.6 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file44089/simplify_test_winsound.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27748> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
