[Twisted-Python] debian weirdness

Jean-Paul Calderone exarkun at divmod.com
Sat Apr 15 09:54:47 MDT 2006


On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 11:31:03 -0400, Christopher Armstrong <radix at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
>On 4/15/06, Phil Christensen <phil at bubblehouse.org> wrote:
>
>
>Compiling /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/twisted/test/
>> stdio_test_halfclose.py ...
>>    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/twisted/test/
>> stdio_test_halfclose.py", line 20
>>      ???
>>      ^
>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>> [blah blah blah]
>>
>> this isn't a big deal, because i can just go in and edit the file,
>> removing what appears to be simply three question-marks, but i
>> thought this was pretty strange. it's doesn't seem to be in the
>> original source in SVN, and i've noticed this occurring on both
>> Debian and Ubuntu, on various servers.
>
>
>
>It _is_ in the original source in SVN, and that file appears to be unused.
>It was committed by exarkun in revision 16374 with the commit message
>"mumble". I guess it should be removed, unless it *is* serving some
>purpose...
>

Actually, someone should finish it, since there is otherwise no test coverage of halfclose stdio.

Jean-Paul




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