From: Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 08:24:42 +0000 (+1000)
Subject: Note why we can't write an automated test for the code path that brings up the REPL... 
X-Git-Tag: v3.3.0b2~208
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=37b3b90b02183d072b1f4fa4de96f67eafb6f245;p=python

Note why we can't write an automated test for the code path that brings up the REPL for a bare 'python' call
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_cmd_line_script.py b/Lib/test/test_cmd_line_script.py
index a08cabd2cb..849abe2477 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_cmd_line_script.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_cmd_line_script.py
@@ -143,6 +143,9 @@ class CmdLineTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertIn(expected, out)
 
     def test_stdin_loader(self):
+        # Unfortunately, there's no way to automatically test the fully
+        # interactive REPL, since that code path only gets executed when
+        # stdin in an interactive tty.
         p = spawn_python()
         try:
             p.stdin.write(b"print(__loader__)\n")