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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/test_subprocess.py | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py index 07e2b4b..8f5a58c 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py @@ -200,13 +200,16 @@ class ProcessTestCase(BaseTestCase): p.wait() self.assertEqual(47, p.returncode) - # TODO: make this test work on Linux. - # This may be failing on Linux because of issue #7774. - @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform not in ('win32', 'darwin'), - "possible bug using executable argument on Linux") def test_executable(self): # Check that the executable argument works. - self._assert_python(["doesnotexist", "-c"], executable=sys.executable) + # + # On Unix (non-Mac and non-Windows), Python looks at args[0] to + # determine where its standard library is, so we need the directory + # of args[0] to be valid for the Popen() call to Python to succeed. + # See also issue #16170 and issue #7774. + doesnotexist = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(sys.executable), + "doesnotexist") + self._assert_python([doesnotexist, "-c"], executable=sys.executable) def test_executable_takes_precedence(self): # Check that the executable argument takes precedence over args[0]. |