Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/8] iotests/257: test API failures

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

On 7/10/19 12:22 PM, Max Reitz wrote:
> On 10.07.19 03:05, John Snow wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  tests/qemu-iotests/257     | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  tests/qemu-iotests/257.out | 85 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  2 files changed, 154 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/257 b/tests/qemu-iotests/257
>> index 2eb4f26c28..de8707cb19 100755
>> --- a/tests/qemu-iotests/257
>> +++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/257
>> @@ -450,10 +450,79 @@ def test_bitmap_sync(bsync_mode, msync_mode='bitmap', failure=None):
>>          compare_images(img_path, fbackup2)
>>          log('')
>>  
>> +def test_backup_api():
>> +    """
>> +    """
> 
> Er, OK?
> 
> [...]
> 

Whooooooooops.

>> +        for sync_mode, config in error_cases.items():
>> +            log("-- Sync mode {:s} tests --\n".format(sync_mode))
>> +            for bitmap, policies in config.items():
> 
> You might be interested in the fact that the iteration order is
> different for Python2.  Or maybe you aren’t.
> 

asdf. This is undoubtedly the worst thing about Python. I'll have to fix
this, because the ordering isn't guaranteed until 3.5 or some such and
we're only EOLing Python2.

--js