Zachary Ware added the comment: The real issue here is that the test used to determine whether -S was passed or not is outdated: instead of checking sys.flags.no_site, it checks whether 'site' is in sys.modules. This is no longer a valid test, since site's side effects are contained within site.main, which is only run if no_site is False. In fact, distutils imports symbols from site unconditionally, as do a couple of test modules; hence why test_site currently fails running `python -S Lib/test`: test_distutils (and others) run before test_site and cause site to be present in sys.modules.
I think we should move away from a toplevel SkipTest, though; some of the tests may be applicable whether -S is passed or not, though of course the ImportSideEffectTests would not be. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19828> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
