Spurious unittest warnings

[ambv]

BPO	15279
Nosy	@ned-deily, @ezio-melotti, @voidspace, @florentx, @cjerdonek, @ambv

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assignee = 'https://github.com/voidspace'
closed_at = <Date 2014-11-01.22:02:06.197>
created_at = <Date 2012-07-07.15:22:25.211>
labels = ['type-bug', 'library']
title = 'Spurious unittest warnings'
updated_at = <Date 2014-11-01.22:02:06.196>
user = 'https://github.com/ambv'

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activity = <Date 2014-11-01.22:02:06.196>
actor = 'ezio.melotti'
assignee = 'michael.foord'
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closer = 'ezio.melotti'
components = ['Library (Lib)']
creation = <Date 2012-07-07.15:22:25.211>
creator = 'lukasz.langa'
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issue_num = 15279
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status = 'closed'
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue15279'
versions = ['Python 3.2', 'Python 3.3']

[ambv]

On Mac OS X 10.7 64-bit unittest regression tests fail:

\======================================================================
FAIL: test_warnings (unittest.test.test_runner.Test_TextTestRunner)
\----------------------------------------------------------------------

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/Users/ambv/Documents/Projekty/Python/cpython/py33/Lib/unittest/test/test_runner.py", line 269, in test_warnings
        self.assertEqual(len(out), 12)
    AssertionError: 15 != 12

\----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 568 tests in 24.441s

FAILED (failures=1, skipped=1)
test test_unittest failed

It looks like warnings generated by unittest aren't properly limited to one for each distinct warning. Running _test_warnings.py directly shows that:

    $ ./python.exe Lib/unittest/test/_test_warnings.py
    .......
    

---

Ran 7 tests in 0.002s

OK
Please use assertEqual instead.
Please use assertEqual instead.
Please use assertEqual instead.
dw
dw
dw
Please use assertTrue instead.
Please use assertTrue instead.
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uw
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[61188 refs]

The expected behaviour would be for each kind of the "Please use" warnings to only appear once.

[florentx]

I cannot reproduce with 3.3 on Snow Leopard (default options, default compiler).

$ ./python.exe -m test.regrtest test_unittest
[1/1] test_unittest
1 test OK.
[158600 refs]

== CPython 3.3.0b1 (tip:9807de61191c, Jul 7 2012, 10:54:30) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)]
== Darwin-10.8.0-i386-64bit little-endian

[ambv]

Additional info that might help:

1. The command I'm using to build:

  MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.7 ./configure CC=gcc-apple-4.2 --with-pydebug

2. The test header in -v output:

== CPython 3.3.0b1 (default:2e9cba1d1554, Jul 7 2012, 16:17:21) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3) (MacPorts apple-gcc42 5666.3_7)]
== Darwin-11.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit little-endian
== /Users/ambv/Documents/Projekty/Python/cpython/py33/build/test_python_3894
Testing with flags: sys.flags(debug=0, inspect=0, interactive=0, optimize=0, dont_write_bytecode=0, no_user_site=0, no_site=0, ignore_environment=0, verbose=0, bytes_warning=0, quiet=0, hash_randomization=1)

[ned-deily]

That's an odd failure. I've not seen it nor can I reproduce it on 10.7 using the standard Apple Xcode 4.3.3 clang nor on 10.6 using the Apple Xcode 3.2.6 gcc-4.2. You appear to be using a MacPorts-built gcc-4.2. Can you try with an Apple-supplied compiler (./configure will now use clang by default for 10.7, avoid the use of Apple's llvm-gcc)? Anything else in your environment that might be non-standard?

[ambv]

Unfortunately, exactly the same thing happens with

== CPython 3.3.0b1 (default:464c6a50b0ce, Jul 9 2012, 09:26:07) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple Clang 3.1 (tags/Apple/clang-318.0.61)]
==   Darwin-11.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit little-endian
==   /Users/ambv/Documents/Projekty/Python/cpython/py33/build/test_python_37987
Testing with flags: sys.flags(debug=0, inspect=0, interactive=0, optimize=0, dont_write_bytecode=0, no_user_site=0, no_site=0, ignore_environment=0, verbose=0, bytes_warning=0, quiet=0, hash_randomization=1)

What's interesting is that test_warnings itself works as advertised and it's only Lib/unittest/test/_test_warnings.py that misbehaves.

On my friend's 10.7 machine everything runs fine with a little older Clang:

== CPython 3.3.0b1 (default, Jul 9 2012, 09:52:57) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple Clang 3.0 (tags/Apple/clang-211.12)]
==   Darwin-11.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit little-endian
==   /Users/sheep/dev/python/cpython-464c6a50b0ce/build/test_python_7695
Testing with flags: sys.flags(debug=0, inspect=0, interactive=0, optimize=0, dont_write_bytecode=0, no_user_site=0, no_site=0, ignore_environment=0, verbose=0, bytes_warning=0, quiet=0, hash_randomization=1)

Will investigate further.

[ezio-melotti]

Is this still an issue?

[ezio-melotti]

I'm going to close this.
If someone can reproduce it again, feel free to reopen it.