Unit tests fail in non-English locales

[Marius Gedminas]

SchoolTool's unit tests fail in certain non-English locales (e.g. German).
This happens with SchoolTool 0.11.2, SchoolBell 1.2.2, and perhaps other
branches. I'm pretty sure trunk has this problem (although I've been unable to
reproduce it myself).

> ======================================================================
> FAIL: schooltool.tests.test_main.doctest_load_options
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/local/zope/schooltool-0.11.2/Zope3/src/zope/testing/doctest.py",
line 2187, in runTest
> raise self.failureException(self.format_failure(new.getvalue()))
> AssertionError: Failed doctest test for
schooltool.tests.test_main.doctest_load_options
> File "/usr/local/zope/schooltool-0.11.2/src/schooltool/tests/test_main.py",
line 88, in doctest_load_options
>.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> File "/usr/local/zope/schooltool-0.11.2/src/schooltool/tests/test_main.py",
line 112, in schooltool.tests.test_main.doctest_load_options
> Failed example:
> o = server.load_options(['st.py', '-c', sample_config_file])
> Expected:
> Reading configuration from ...sample.conf
> st.py: warning: ignored configuration option 'module'
> st.py: warning: ignored configuration option 'domain'
> st.py: warning: ignored configuration option 'path'
> st.py: warning: ignored configuration option 'app_log_file'
> Got:
> Konfiguration von
/usr/local/zope/schooltool-0.11.2/src/schooltool/tests/sample.conf einlesen
...

This can be fixed either by fixing issue 76, or by adding back the workaround
(LC_ALL=C python test.py) to the Makefile.

I do not know who removed that workaround and why, but it used to be in our
Makefile precisely to prevent this bug.

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

The LC_ALL=C workaround is still there!

I suppose the GNU-extension $LANGUAGE might override $LC_ALL and cause this
problem. Perhaps change that Makefile line to

  LANGUAGE= LC_ALL=C $(python) test.py $(TESTFLAGS)

?

[Philipp Schroeder (philipp.schroeder)]

I tried the workaround suggested by mgedmin in the last message. In the
'Makefile' of the 'schooltool-0.11.2' directory, I couldn't find any line
containing LC_ALL=C. I found it in the 'Makefile' in the 'schoolbell-1.2.2'
directory, though.

I replaced that line as suggested. Then, I ran make test.

---------------------

# make test
[ ! -d Zope3 ] || cd Zope3 && python setup.py build_ext -i
running build_ext
running build_headers
python setup.py build
Extracting translations
running build
running build_py
running build_scripts
python remove-stale-bytecode.py

---------------------------------

--> 'make test' runs through without the error message I got previously, but I
don't get the usual confirmation message

"Ran XXX tests in YYY.ZZZs"

HTH

[Philipp Schroeder (philipp.schroeder)]

This bug is still unsolved in schoolbell-1.2.3 and schooltool-0.11.3 released
earlier today.