cpython/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