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[Python-Dev] platform module testing

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Fri May 16 15:01:43 CEST 2008

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On 2008-05-15 23:54, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> At the moment, the test for the platform module merely calls each
> function. I realize that this is a hard module to test well, but are
> there some assumptions we can make? For example, if sys.platform is
> 'java', can it be assumed that java_ver is going to return something
> which is not empty. When sys.platform is 'darwin' and the gestalt
> module is present, is it reasonable to require that a empty tuple not
> be returned?

Yes, at least the main elements should be present and filled in.

If not, we have to fix platform.py.

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