I started a new branch for porting zope.testing to Python 3, for several reasons, mostly because I got confused and decided starting over with a clean copy and beginning with the new Distribute python 3 support from start would make me less foncused (it worked). The branches aren't that different in the end, obviously:
http://svn.zope.org/zope.testing/branches/regebro-python3-reloaded/ There are 19 tests that doesn't pass yet (and that's mostly doctest tests, so there are many actual failures), and most of those are based in formatting differences when it comes to doctests. For example: Exceptions in Python 3 print out the whole module path of the exception, while in Python 2 it's only the classname: Immediate doctest failure. This is fixable in your doctests by trapping the exception instead, which is what I've done. However: Many of the failing tests are tests to check that the doctest module works. In the other modules I've ported, the doctest module has been included because it wasn't included in Python 2.3, and could simply be dropped with Python 2.3 support. However, in zope.testing doctests are slightly modified and also tested. So many of the failing tests are tests that doctest behave properly, and that the output formatting is OK. Which, of course, it is not. There are other differences too. The diff module seems to add empty lines at the end sometimes, which bugger up the output, especially in the colorful formatter tests. Efforts to remove doctests failed on the INTERPRET_FOOTNOTES options, which the standard Python doctests doesn't support. A quick search turns out that ZODB, zc.catalog, zc.relation, zc.async, zc.sharing, zc.freeze and lovely.remotetask uses it, maybe more. I really think it's a bad idea to have a special version of doctest.py. I think we should get rid of it. That means either dropping this feature, or getting it merged into Python 2.7 and 3.2. The 2.7 beta is out now, so it's pretty urgent. I strongly suspect it's going to be practically impossible to support zope.testing from the same test-base otherwise. Opinions? -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
