On WIndows, skip the part of test_dircache that can't work on Windows.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_dircache.py b/Lib/test/test_dircache.py
index fa3fe57..6d57dcf 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_dircache.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_dircache.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
import unittest
from test_support import run_unittest, TESTFN
-import dircache, os, time
+import dircache, os, time, sys
class DircacheTests(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -40,14 +40,20 @@
# Check that cache is actually caching, not just passing through.
self.assert_(dircache.listdir(self.tempdir) is entries)
- # Sadly, dircache has the same granularity as stat.mtime, and so
- # can't notice any changes that occured within 1 sec of the last
- # time it examined a directory.
- time.sleep(1)
- self.writeTemp("test1")
- entries = dircache.listdir(self.tempdir)
- self.assertEquals(entries, ['test1'])
- self.assert_(dircache.listdir(self.tempdir) is entries)
+ # Directories aren't "files" on Windows, and directory mtime has
+ # nothing to do with when files under a directory get created.
+ # That is, this test can't possibly work under Windows -- dircache
+ # is only good for capturing a one-shot snapshot there.
+
+ if sys.platform[:3] not in ('win', 'os2'):
+ # Sadly, dircache has the same granularity as stat.mtime, and so
+ # can't notice any changes that occured within 1 sec of the last
+ # time it examined a directory.
+ time.sleep(1)
+ self.writeTemp("test1")
+ entries = dircache.listdir(self.tempdir)
+ self.assertEquals(entries, ['test1'])
+ self.assert_(dircache.listdir(self.tempdir) is entries)
## UNSUCCESSFUL CASES
self.assertEquals(dircache.listdir(self.tempdir+"_nonexistent"), [])