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FAIL: test_compile_path (test.test_compileall.CompileallTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/xavier/src/python/default/Lib/test/test_compileall.py", line 118, in test_compile_path
    self.assertTrue(compileall.compile_path(quiet=2))
AssertionError: False is not true


Changing the 'quiet' flag value to 0, gives:

test_compile_path (test.test_compileall.CompileallTests) ... Skipping current directory
Listing '/usr/local/lib/python36.zip'...
Can't list '/usr/local/lib/python36.zip'
Listing '/home/xavier/src/python/default/Lib'...
Listing '/home/xavier/src/python/default/Lib/plat-x86_64-linux-gnu'...
Can't list '/home/xavier/src/python/default/Lib/plat-x86_64-linux-gnu'
Listing '/home/xavier/src/python/default/build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6-pydebug'...
Listing '/home/xavier/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages'...
Listing '/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages'...
Compiling '/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/easy_install.py'...
*** PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache
__/easy_install.cpython-36.pyc.139734863394416'
FAIL


Note that this test has already been fixed for another problem in issue 26101.

Just ran into the same issue, but in a slightly different way, and with slightly different consequences. You can actually eliminate this failure by manually running compileall on the affected directory:

sudo python3 -m compileall /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages

In other words, a test failure can come and go depending on the presence of other files on the system.

IMO the test should (a) restrict itself to directories within the build tree, and (b) call compile_path with force=True. That should make it more consistent. Something like the attached patch.

Or we can just skip the test like the other tests with self._skip_if_sys_path_not_writable()

Huh. Yeah, that would work really nicely. Thanks Christian!

Does this count as a bugfix? I think we've missed 3.6 feature freeze.

New changeset e9e4d1b5b4b5 by Christian Heimes in branch 'default':
Issue #27322: skip test_compile_path when sys.path is not writeable.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e9e4d1b5b4b5

AFAIK Ned hasn't tagged the beta yet. Let's see if this fixes the failing Gentoo build bot.

New changeset f7d198fc4c96 by Christian Heimes in branch 'default':
Issue #27322: back out the commit. needs to be addressed after beta1.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/f7d198fc4c96

Here is a patch that reuses the helper in CommandLineTests.

test_compileall depends on sys.path? It doesn't seem reliable to me.

I suggest to create a temporary directory and replace sys.path to only have one item: this directory.

I don't know which files are expected to be there, but we can probably copy .py to this temporary directory.

What do you think?

That seems reasonable to me. There is a context manager in test.test_importlib.util which can help with changing sys.path temporarily.

Any update on the issue?

http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/x86%20Gentoo%20Installed%20with%20X%203.x is still failing.

I'm not sure. The patch got backed out with little explanation, so presumably it broke something somewhere, but I don't know what.

Here's an updated patch.

New changeset e53984b87cf0 by Berker Peksag in branch '3.6':
Issue #27322: Set sys.path to a temp dir in test_compile_path
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e53984b87cf0

New changeset a78446a65b1d by Berker Peksag in branch 'default':
Issue #27322: Merge from 3.6
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a78446a65b1d

The buildbot is now green. Closing this as fixed.

Thanks for your fix :-)

Also working for me. Thanks!