Traceback on python 2.6 starting with 4.3.2

[nedbat]

Originally reported by Matt Clay (Bitbucket: mattclay, GitHub: mattclay)

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The 4.3.2 release generates a traceback on python 2.6, where previous versions did not:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/root/src/github.com/ansible/ansible/test/runner/.tox/py26/bin/coverage-2.6", line 7, in <module>
    from coverage.cmdline import main
  File "/root/src/github.com/ansible/ansible/test/runner/.tox/py26/lib/python2.6/site-packages/coverage/__init__.py", line 13, in <module>
    from coverage.control import Coverage, process_startup
  File "/root/src/github.com/ansible/ansible/test/runner/.tox/py26/lib/python2.6/site-packages/coverage/control.py", line 14, in <module>
    from coverage import env, files
  File "/root/src/github.com/ansible/ansible/test/runner/.tox/py26/lib/python2.6/site-packages/coverage/files.py", line 16, in <module>
    from coverage.misc import contract, CoverageException, join_regex, isolate_module
  File "/root/src/github.com/ansible/ansible/test/runner/.tox/py26/lib/python2.6/site-packages/coverage/misc.py", line 287, in <module>
    class StopEverything(unittest.SkipTest):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'SkipTest'

It appears the commit responsible is this one:

https://bitbucket.org/ned/coveragepy/commits/10050dac0e9e45f9a882cfd16d4173fdea040da0

This error was triggered by running tests on the ansible repository from GitHub:

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/

Running tests with:

test/runner/ansible-test sanity --test ansible-doc --python 2.6 --coverage --tox

Changing the constraints.txt for the tests to limit the version to 4.3.1 works around the issue:

ansible/ansible#20329

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/ned/coveragepy/issue/554

[nedbat]

Oops, sorry! Version 4.3.3, coming up....

[nedbat]

Fixed in d61d044caff7 (bb)

[nedbat]

Issue #555 was marked as a duplicate of this issue.