The most annoying thing on the windows buildbots is when Python crashes hard (with a general protection fault or stack overflow, for example). Usually the system pops up a dialog in this case which allows to attach a debugger to the process. This dialog will stay open until the maintainer manually closes it, and will prevent the next builds.
On my boxes I have inserted these two lines into the PythonXY/Scripts/buildbot script, right at the top: import win32api; win32api.SetErrorMode(7) print "SetErrorMode(7) called." These lines prevent the dialog box to be displayed for critical errors. For example, on Windows AMD64 the test_cpickle test in the trunk currently fails with a stack overflow; instead of hanging with the mentioned dialog box open the test now terminates: http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/trunk/amd64%20XP%20trunk/builds/40/step-test/0 -- Thanks, Thomas _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
