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Re: unittest weirdness

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In article <mailman.8082.1394620172.18130.python-list@python.org>,
 Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:

> I've tried it both ways, and both ways my process is being killed, presumably 
> by the O/S.

What evidence do you have the OS is killing the process?

Some systems have an oom (Out Of Memory) process killer, which nukes 
(semi-random) process when the system exhausts memory.  Is it possible 
this is happening?  If so, you should see some log message in one of 
your system logs.

You didn't mention (or maybe I misssed it) which OS you're using.  I'm 
assuming you've got some kind of system call tracer (strace, truss, 
dtrace, etc).  Try running your tests under that.  If something is 
sending your process a kill signal, you'll see it:

[gazillions of lines elided]
write(1, ">>> ", 4>>> )                     = 4
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
select(1, [0], NULL, NULL, NULL)        = ? ERESTARTNOHAND (To be 
restarted)
--- SIGTERM (Terminated) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGTERM +++

Alternatively, maybe something inside your process is just calling 
sys.exit(), or even os._exit().  You'll see the exit() system call in 
the strace output.

And, of course, the standard suggestion to reduce this down to the 
minimum test case.  You posted:

     def test_xxx_1(self):
         p = self.pp.lockbox_payments[0]
         # affirm we have what we're expecting
         self.assertEqual(
                 (p.payer, p.ck_num, p.credit),
                 ('a customer', '010101', 10000),
                 )
         self.assertEqual(p.invoices.keys(), ['XXXXXXXXXXX'])
         self.assertEqual(p.invoices.values()[0].amount, 10000)
         # now make sure we get back what we're expecting
         np, b = self.pp._match_invoices(p)
         missing = []
         for inv_num in ('123456', '789012', '345678'):
             if inv_num not in b:
                 missing.append(inv_num)
         if missing:
             raise ValueError('invoices %r missing from batch' % missing)

what happens if you reduce that to:

     def test_xxx_1(self):
          self.fail()

do you still get this strange behavior?  What if you get rid of your 
setUpClass()?  Keep hacking away at the test suite until you get down to 
a single line of code which, if run, exhibits the behavior, and if 
commented out, does not.  At that point, you'll have a clue what's 
causing this.  If you're lucky :-)

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unittest weirdness Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-03-11 13:58 -0700
  Re: unittest weirdness John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2014-03-11 22:13 +0000
    Re: unittest weirdness Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-03-11 15:29 -0700
    Re: unittest weirdness Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-03-11 23:36 -0400
    Re: unittest weirdness Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-03-12 03:03 -0700
      Re: unittest weirdness Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-03-12 09:44 -0400
        Re: unittest weirdness Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-03-12 08:32 -0700
          Re: unittest weirdness Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-03-12 13:48 -0400
          Re: unittest weirdness Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-03-12 23:14 +0000
          Re: unittest weirdness Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-03-12 23:47 +0000
            Re: unittest weirdness Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-03-12 17:31 -0700
        Re: unittest weirdness Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-03-12 22:27 -0400
  Re: unittest weirdness Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-03-12 23:38 +0000
    Re: unittest weirdness Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-03-12 17:36 -0700

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