Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] Introduce new acpi/smbios avocado tests using biosbits

[Ani Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca>]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 2:50 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 01:43:21PM +0530, Ani Sinha wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 1:24 PM Ani Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca> wrote:
> > >
> > > Please see the README file added in patch 10 for more details.
> > > Sample runs are as follows:
> > >
> > > $ ./tests/venv/bin/avocado run -t acpi tests/avocado --tap -
> > > ERROR:  Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(...)? (smbios.py, line 92)
> > > ERROR:  Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(...)? (smilatency.py, line 47)
> > > ERROR:  Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(...)? (testacpi.py, line 158)
> >
> > None of the above files are avocado tests or avocado related python
> > scripts. They are run from within bits in a python 2.7 environment. I
> > could not find a mechanism to exclude a directory from avocado tests.
> > I also do not think making those scripts python 3 compliant is a good
> > use of my time since upgrading bits to use python 3 would be a major
> > task unrelated to QEMU testing.
>
> In one of the later patches copy_test_scripts()  copies the files
> into the guest image IIUC.
>
> If you rename them in git, to be .py2  then presumably avocado
> wont try to load them, and then in copy_test_scripts you can
> give them the normal .py extension for the guest.  The .py2
> extension will also make it more obvious to maintainers that
> these are different from the rest of the python coded we have.

I did a quick test and this approach seems to work.

 ./tests/venv/bin/avocado run -t acpi tests/avocado --tap -
1..1
ok 1 tests/avocado/acpi-bits.py:AcpiBitsTest.test_acpi_smbios_bits