From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 21:08:12 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: If the file containing expected output does not exist, assume that it
X-Git-Tag: v2.2a3~1722
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ae1bb176bea47b2123bba208733edb42692e9431;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

If the file containing expected output does not exist, assume that it
contains a single line of text giving the name of the output file.  This
covers all tests that do not actually produce any output in the test code.
---

diff --git a/Lib/test/regrtest.py b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
index ffa67f1b41fd..c77abc34a303 100755
--- a/Lib/test/regrtest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ import os
 import getopt
 import traceback
 import random
+import StringIO
 
 import test_support
 
@@ -284,7 +285,11 @@ def count(n, word):
 class Compare:
 
     def __init__(self, filename):
-        self.fp = open(filename, 'r')
+        if os.path.exists(filename):
+            self.fp = open(filename, 'r')
+        else:
+            self.fp = StringIO.StringIO(
+                os.path.basename(filename) + "\n")
         self.stuffthatmatched = []
 
     def write(self, data):