Implement #11832. Add an option to start regrtest and wait for input
before continuing.
This is useful for starting up the test suite to attach a debugger such
as Visual Studio or others.
diff --git a/Lib/test/regrtest.py b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
index 9a83fbe..0dcd550 100755
--- a/Lib/test/regrtest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
-- dump the traceback and exit if a test takes more
than TIMEOUT seconds (default: 30 minutes); disable
the timeout if TIMEOUT is zero
+--wait -- wait for user input, e.g., allow a debugger to be attached
Verbosity
@@ -279,7 +280,7 @@
'use=', 'threshold=', 'trace', 'coverdir=', 'nocoverdir',
'runleaks', 'huntrleaks=', 'memlimit=', 'randseed=',
'multiprocess=', 'coverage', 'slaveargs=', 'forever', 'debug',
- 'start=', 'nowindows', 'header', 'testdir=', 'timeout='])
+ 'start=', 'nowindows', 'header', 'testdir=', 'timeout=', 'wait'])
except getopt.error as msg:
usage(msg)
@@ -419,6 +420,8 @@
"faulthandler.dump_tracebacks_later", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(1)
timeout = float(a)
+ elif o == '--wait':
+ input("Press any key to continue...")
else:
print(("No handler for option {}. Please report this as a bug "
"at http://bugs.python.org.").format(o), file=sys.stderr)