[issue25800] errors running test_capi from command line

New submission from SilentGhost: Running: ./python Lib/test/test_capi.py I got EmbeddingTests erroring out in setUp: first line of which (a triple application of os.path.dirname) creates an empty string which cannot be used as an argument to os.chdir afterwards. I'm to be honest not at all

[issue25800] errors running test_capi from command line

Martin Panter added the comment: The code looks like it is trying to find the root of the source code tree, and then chdir() to it and access /Programs/_testembed etc. In your case the chain of dirname() calls returns an empty string because that root is already the current directory. I would

[issue25800] errors running test_capi from command line

Changes by Zachary Ware : -- versions: +Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue25800] errors running test_capi from command line

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset fae5186562d0 by Zachary Ware in branch '3.4': Issue #25800: Fix running test_capi directly https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/fae5186562d0 New changeset de4108db61f7 by Zachary Ware in branch '3.5': Issue #25800: Merge with 3.4

[issue25800] errors running test_capi from command line

Zachary Ware added the comment: Thanks for the report! -- type: -> behavior ___ Python tracker ___ ___