New submission from Pat LaVarre:
SUMMARY:
Calling doctest.testmod more than once before SystemExit spews stderr
messages such as "*** DocTestRunner.merge: '__main__' in both testers;
summing outcomes"
STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
$ cat tttestmod.py
import doctest
d
Pat LaVarre added the comment:
Thanks for the cultural education of 2.5.1 isn't supposed to work, I
didn't know that.
Also I'm glad to hear this is fixed for 2.5.2 already.
Sorry I'm too new & ignorant to understand why you believe this is
fixed. I don't see that
Pat LaVarre added the comment:
--- USAGE:
I agree we should let people in future write:
if not platform.system('Windows'):
rather than:
if not (platform.system() in ('Microsoft', 'Windows')):
now that our people can no longer rely on Python in Vista correctly
Pat LaVarre added the comment:
Works for me.
I tried python-trunk-vistaplatform-v2.patch in one sample of 2006-11
RTM Vista plus 2.5.1 Python plus this patch. I quote:
>>> import platform
>>> platform.uname()
('Windows', '[redacted]', 'Vist
Pat LaVarre added the comment:
I recommend we reject this first draft of the python-trunk-
vistaplatform.patch.
I reason as follows ...
ACTUAL RESULTS OF 2.5.1 PLUS PATCH IN VISTA WINDOWS:
>>> import platform
>>> ...
>>> platform.uname()
('Microsoft'
New submission from Pat LaVarre:
SUMMARY:
'Microsoft' is the platform.system() of Vista Windows, whereas 'Windows'
was the platform.system() of XP Windows, whoops.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE & ACTUAL RESULTS:
Run 2.5.1 Python in a Vista and see:
>>> im
