From: R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:08:05 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: #7110: have regrtest print test failures and tracebacks to stderr not stdout.
X-Git-Tag: v3.2a3~110
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=11cabcf73d82ca0174de85144930ce87ee538581;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

#7110: have regrtest print test failures and tracebacks to stderr not stdout.

Patch by Sandro Tosi.
---

diff --git a/Lib/test/regrtest.py b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
index 366cedfda187..55c73e23ce13 100755
--- a/Lib/test/regrtest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
@@ -957,16 +957,16 @@ def runtest_inner(test, verbose, quiet,
     except KeyboardInterrupt:
         raise
     except support.TestFailed as msg:
-        print("test", test, "failed --", msg)
-        sys.stdout.flush()
+        print("test", test, "failed --", msg, file=sys.stderr)
+        sys.stderr.flush()
         return FAILED, test_time
     except:
         type, value = sys.exc_info()[:2]
-        print("test", test, "crashed --", str(type) + ":", value)
-        sys.stdout.flush()
+        print("test", test, "crashed --", str(type) + ":", value, file=sys.stderr)
+        sys.stderr.flush()
         if verbose or debug:
-            traceback.print_exc(file=sys.stdout)
-            sys.stdout.flush()
+            traceback.print_exc(file=sys.stderr)
+            sys.stderr.flush()
         return FAILED, test_time
     else:
         if refleak:
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 5d12c1f6c7a1..228dfe7f4127 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -818,6 +818,7 @@ Frank J. Tobin
 R Lindsay Todd
 Bennett Todd
 Matias Torchinsky
+Sandro Tosi
 Richard Townsend
 Laurence Tratt
 John Tromp
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 34fd5121ea9d..03ca4a5c605f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -260,6 +260,9 @@ Tools/Demos
 Tests
 -----
 
+- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
+  tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
+
 - Issue #9628: fix runtests.sh -x option so more than one test can be excluded.
 
 - Issue #9899: Fix test_tkinter.test_font on various platforms.  Patch by