Test system says "Too mant positional arguments"

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

1. ./test.py -fp canonical product 2>&1 | less

What should happen: All the tests in product/ are run.
What actually happens:
------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./test.py", line 140, in ?
    result = testrunner.run(defaults)
  File "/home/mpt/hacking/lpsrc/2007-03-bug-page/lib/zope/testing/testrunner.py"
, line 238, in run
    failed = not run_with_options(options)
  File "/home/mpt/hacking/lpsrc/2007-03-bug-page/lib/zope/testing/testrunner.py"
, line 406, in run_with_options
    ran += resume_tests(options, layer_name, failures, errors)
  File "/home/mpt/hacking/lpsrc/2007-03-bug-page/lib/zope/testing/testrunner.py"
, line 606, in resume_tests
    raise SubprocessError(line+suberr.read())
zope.testing.testrunner.SubprocessError: usage: Usage: test.py [options] [MODULE
] [TEST]

test.py: error: Too mant positional arguments
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I think that's supposed to be "Too many".

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

Stub says on-list:

> As the error says, there are Too mant (sic) positional arguments. This works:
> ./test.py -fvvv canonical --test=bug.txt
>
> This is a bug upstream in z3 I think. I tried dropping in current svn
> testrunner, but we get a different error instead. The typo has been fixed
> though :)

[Christian Reis (kiko)]

While not high, this is definitely a pretty ugly wart, and confusing to
newcomers.

[Tres Seaver (tseaver)]

I cannot reproduce this with the current testrunner:

 $ svn co svn://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zope.testrunner/trunk runner
 $ cd runner
 $ /opt/Python-2.6.5/bin/python bootstrap.py
 ...
 $ bin/buildout
 ...
 $ bin/test -fp zope sometest 2>&1
 Total: 0 tests, 0 failures, 0 errors in 0.000 seconds.

Can you provide info about the version of zope.testing where
you observed the bug?

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

No I can't, sorry, because I am no longer a Launchpad developer and therefore no longer use Zope.

Why can't you just grep the zope.testing source code for the string "mant positional"?

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Other sightings:
http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/tools/buildbot/pylibs/zope/testing/testrunner.py
http://schooltool.sourcearchive.com/documentation/0.11.4-3ubuntu2/testrunner_8py-source.html

[Tres Seaver (tseaver)]

That string is not present in either zope.testing or zope.testrunner trunks:

 $ cd projects/Zope/Z3/ztk/src/zope.testing/
 $ find . -name "*.py" | xargs grep "mant pos"
 $ cd ../zope.testrunner/
 $ find . -name "*.py" | xargs grep "mant pos"

and hasn't been for art least two years.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

We're looking to migrate away from having a custom testrunner, so there's no point putting effort into this [minor] wart.