#7110: have regrtest print test failures and tracebacks to stderr not stdout.
Patch by Sandro Tosi.
diff --git a/Lib/test/regrtest.py b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
index 366cedf..55c73e2 100755
--- a/Lib/test/regrtest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
@@ -957,16 +957,16 @@
except KeyboardInterrupt:
raise
except support.TestFailed as msg:
- print("test", test, "failed --", msg)
- sys.stdout.flush()
+ print("test", test, "failed --", msg, file=sys.stderr)
+ sys.stderr.flush()
return FAILED, test_time
except:
type, value = sys.exc_info()[:2]
- print("test", test, "crashed --", str(type) + ":", value)
- sys.stdout.flush()
+ print("test", test, "crashed --", str(type) + ":", value, file=sys.stderr)
+ sys.stderr.flush()
if verbose or debug:
- traceback.print_exc(file=sys.stdout)
- sys.stdout.flush()
+ traceback.print_exc(file=sys.stderr)
+ sys.stderr.flush()
return FAILED, test_time
else:
if refleak:
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 5d12c1f..228dfe7 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -818,6 +818,7 @@
R Lindsay Todd
Bennett Todd
Matias Torchinsky
+Sandro Tosi
Richard Townsend
Laurence Tratt
John Tromp
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 34fd512..03ca4a5 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -260,6 +260,9 @@
Tests
-----
+- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
+ tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
+
- Issue #9628: fix runtests.sh -x option so more than one test can be excluded.
- Issue #9899: Fix test_tkinter.test_font on various platforms. Patch by