[Zope3-dev] Re: [ZODB-Dev] ZODB4 Unit tests failing

[Guido van Rossum]

> [Tres Seaver]
> > I am seeing 82 failures on a head Zope3 checkout inside the ZODB tests
> > (see the attachment).
> > Is this known breakage?

[Tim]
> Don't think so.  I ran a fresh checkout of Zope3 head with Python 2.2.2 just
> now, and got no failures in the ZODB or ZEO tests (I got 6 failures total,
> most in zope.app.publisher.browser.tests.test_directives).  This was
> Win98SE.
> 
> > I am running with Python2.2.2, in a sandbox where I did the following:
> >
> >   $ cvs -q up -AdP
> >   $ make clean
> >   $ make
> >   $ python2.2 test.py 2>/tmp/zodb_test_errors.txt
> 
> It's peculiar that your first problem was
> 
>     AttributeError: Connection instance has no attribute '_conflicts'
> 
> In the src.zodb.connection.py I see, Connection.__init__() clearly
> establishes a _conflicts attr:
> 
>         self._conflicts = Set()
> 
> So it's hard to see how that AttributeError could occur if we're running the
> same code.

Tres, maybe you have done "make install" for a previous version of
ZODB4 or Zope3?  I've often had this problem; somehow site-packages
can override the Zope3 module search path.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)