Lib/test/test_support.py

"""Supporting definitions for the Python regression test."""


class Error(Exception):
        """Base class for regression test exceptions."""

class TestFailed(Error):
        """Test failed."""

class TestSkipped(Error):
        """Test skipped.

        This can be raised to indicate that a test was deliberatly
        skipped, but not because a feature wasn't available.  For
        example, if some resource can't be used, such as the network
        appears to be unavailable, this should be raised instead of
        TestFailed.

        """


verbose = 1				# Flag set to 0 by regrtest.py
use_large_resources = 1 # Flag set to 0 by regrtest.py

def unload(name):
	import sys
	try:
		del sys.modules[name]
	except KeyError:
		pass

def forget(modname):
	unload(modname)
	import sys, os
	for dirname in sys.path:
		try:
			os.unlink(os.path.join(dirname, modname + '.pyc'))
		except os.error:
			pass

FUZZ = 1e-6

def fcmp(x, y): # fuzzy comparison function
	if type(x) == type(0.0) or type(y) == type(0.0):
		try:
			x, y = coerce(x, y)
			fuzz = (abs(x) + abs(y)) * FUZZ
			if abs(x-y) <= fuzz:
				return 0
		except:
			pass
	elif type(x) == type(y) and type(x) in (type(()), type([])):
		for i in range(min(len(x), len(y))):
			outcome = fcmp(x[i], y[i])
			if outcome <> 0:
				return outcome
		return cmp(len(x), len(y))
	return cmp(x, y)

TESTFN = '@test' # Filename used for testing
from os import unlink

def findfile(file, here=__file__):
	import os
	if os.path.isabs(file):
		return file
	import sys
	path = sys.path
	path = [os.path.dirname(here)] + path
	for dn in path:
		fn = os.path.join(dn, file)
		if os.path.exists(fn): return fn
	return file