egreen <egr...@operamail.com> added the comment: These .pickle files aren't created by the tests themselves, but they do show up after running 'make test', or more specifically after running './python Lib/test/regrtest.py -v test_lib2to3'.
This is because a grammar generated from a .txt grammar file is cached as a pickle for faster access by load_grammar in Lib/lib2to3/pgen2/driver.py. A pickle file then ends up in the same directory as the .txt file. IMHO, though it may be preferable to remove just the pickle files in Lib/lib2to3, it should never be required for tests to have pickle files already available in the source tree. Instead, the test should create a temporary pickle file, e.g. from a bytes object. Furthermore, binary files shouldn't be versioned without good reason. Thus, removing all pickle files should be safe for the future. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6982> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
