When building Python in some uncommon platforms there are some known tests that will fail. Right now, the test suite has the ability to ignore entire tests using the -x option and to receive a filter file using the --matchfile filter. The problem with the --matchfile option is that it receives a file with patterns to accept and when you want to ignore a couple of tests and subtests, is too cumbersome to lists ALL tests that are not the ones that you want to accept and he problem with -x is that is not easy to ignore just a subtests that fail and the whole test needs to be ignored.
For these reasons, add a new option to allow to ignore a list of test and subtests for these situations.
Capturing exceptions into names can lead to reference cycles though the __traceback__ attribute of the exceptions in some obscure cases that have been reported previously and fixed individually. As these variables are not used anyway, we can remove the binding to reduce the chances of creating reference cycles.
See for example GH-13135
This PR implements a fix for `multiprocessing.Process` objects; the error occurs when Processes are created using either `fork` or `forkserver` as the `start_method`.
In these instances, the `MainThread` of the newly created `Process` object retains all attributes from its parent's `MainThread` object, including the `native_id` attribute. The resulting behavior is such that the new process' `MainThread` captures an incorrect/outdated `native_id` (the parent's instead of its own).
This change forces the Process object to update its `native_id` attribute during the bootstrap process.
cc @vstinner
https://bugs.python.org/issue38707
Automerge-Triggered-By: @pitrou
Ignore `GeneratorExit` exceptions when throwing an exception into the `aclose` coroutine of an asynchronous generator.
https://bugs.python.org/issue35409
If an exception is raised and PyInit__multibytecodec() returns NULL,
Python reports properly the exception to the user. There is no need
to crash Python with Py_FatalError().
The C-API docs are a bit sparse on the interplay between C `fork()` and the CPython runtime. This change adds some more information on the subject.
https://bugs.python.org/issue38816
Ensure isabs() is always True for \\?\ prefixed paths
Avoid unnecessary usage of readlink() to avoid resolving broken links incorrectly
Ensure shutil tests run in test directory
Small docs update for [bpo-34651](https://bugs.python.org/issue34651).
Other references to fork (e.g. the PyOS.*Fork functions or discussions of fork() when embedding Python) point back to os.fork, so I don't think any other updates are needed.
https://bugs.python.org/issue38778
Automerge-Triggered-By: @ericsnowcurrently
John Belmonte
Victor Stinner
Pablo Galindo
Brandt Bucher
Jake Tesler
Adam Johnson
Vincent Michel
Jules Lasne (jlasne)
Łukasz Langa
Batuhan Taşkaya
Dong-hee Na
Tomás Farías
Steve Dower
Tal Einat
jsnklln
Роман Донченко
Vinay Sajip
Victor Stinner
Raymond Hettinger
alclarks
Zackery Spytz
Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
Andrey Doroschenko
Jason (Perry) Taylor
Serhiy Storchaka
HongWeipeng
Eric Snow
Phil Connell