Fiddle with new test cases -- verify that we get a sensible error
message for bad mode argument -- so that it doesn't fail on Windows.
It's hack. We know that errno is set to 0 in this case on Windows, so
check for that specifically.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_file.py b/Lib/test/test_file.py
index cb1bdce..931e33d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_file.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_file.py
@@ -46,14 +46,17 @@
print "writelines accepted sequence of non-string objects"
f.close()
-# verify that we get a sensible error message for bad made argument
+# verify that we get a sensible error message for bad mode argument
bad_mode = "qwerty"
try:
open(TESTFN, bad_mode)
except IOError, msg:
- s = str(msg)
- if s.find(TESTFN) != -1 or s.find(bad_mode) == -1:
- print "bad error message for invalid mode: %s" % s
+ if msg[0] != 0:
+ s = str(msg)
+ if s.find(TESTFN) != -1 or s.find(bad_mode) == -1:
+ print "bad error message for invalid mode: %s" % s
+ # if msg[0] == 0, we're probably on Windows where there may be
+ # no obvious way to discover why open() failed.
else:
print "no error for invalid mode: %s" % bad_mode