Turns out the mysterious "expected output" file contained exactly N dots,
because test_poll() has a loop that *usually* went around N times,
printing one dot on each loop trip. But there's no guarantee of that,
because the exact value of N depended on the vagaries of scheduling
time.sleep()s across two different processes. So stopped printing dots,
and got rid of the expected output file. Add a loop counter instead,
and verify that the loop goes around at least a couple of times. Also
cut the minimum time needed for this test from 4 seconds to 1.
tester that a DOS box is expected to flash. Slash the sleep from 2
seconds to a quarter second (why would we want to wait 2 seconds just
to stare at a DOS box?).
what this is trying to do. If it's necessary for it to create > 1000
processes, it should be controlled by a new resource and not run by
default on Windows.
display a test's docstring as "the name" of the test. So changed most
test docstrings to comments, and removed the clearly useless ones. Now
unittest reports the actual names of the test methods.
Peter Astrand
Tim Peters
Fredrik Lundh