imports e.g. test_support must do so using an absolute package name
such as "import test.test_support" or "from test import test_support".
This also updates the README in Lib/test, and gets rid of the
duplicate data dirctory in Lib/test/data (replaced by
Lib/email/test/data).
Now Tim and Jack can have at it. :)
and replaces them with a new API verify(). As a result the regression
suite will also perform its tests in optimization mode.
Written by Marc-Andre Lemburg. Copyright assigned to Guido van Rossum.
problem where Python is configured with the nismodule but NIS isn't
installed, or the map names don't correspond to those hardcoded in
nismodule.c (which is bogus in and of itself).
test_*: converted to the new test harness. GvR note! test_signal.py
works interatively (i.e. when verbose=1) but does not work inside the
test harness. It must be a timing issue, but I haven't figured it out
yet.