[TIP] Testing from sandbox in the presence of installed versions

holger krekel holger at merlinux.eu
Sat Jan 22 09:18:04 PST 2011


Hi Skip,

could you post or point to a paste-service-URL-provided full
session log including your actual invocation and working
directory?

holger

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:19 -0600, skip at pobox.com wrote:
> This is one of those posts where I admit my complete ignorance of the right
> way to do things.
> 
> I'm one of the SpamBayes developer (the only active one at the moment).
> While SpamBayes has a bunch of unit tests I have been remiss in keeping them
> in working order.  Today I made a very simple change to the code
> (incorporate the Python 2.5 versions of asyncore and asynchat into the
> source to avoid the breakage present in the 2.6 versions of those modules)
> and want to run the unit tests.  They are failing right and left, in part I
> think because the version of SpamBayes which is installed in
> .../site-packages is being used instead of the code in my sandbox.
> 
> I tried using tox with this simple tox.ini file:
> 
>     # content of: tox.ini , put in same dir as setup.py
>     [tox]
>     envlist = py24,py25,py26,py27
>     [testenv]
>     commands=nosetests
> 
> Alas, that didn't help because the installed Pythons' site-packages
> directories are still searched for SpamBayes, e.g.:
> 
>     ...
>     pkg_resources.run_script('spambayes==1.1b1', 'sb_imapfilter.py')
>       File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 489, in run_script
>       File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 1207, in run_script
>       File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spambayes-1.1b1-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/sb_imapfilter.py", line 792, in <module>
>         class IMAPFolder(object):
>       File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spambayes-1.1b1-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/sb_imapfilter.py", line 828, in IMAPFolder
>         re.IGNORECASE)
>     ...
> 
> Without uninstalling SpamBayes, how do I coax tox into using my sandbox
> version of SpamBayes?
> 
> Thx,
> 
> -- 
> Skip Montanaro - skip at pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/
> 
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