[Pythonmac-SIG] First Experience, Unix Python vs. MacPython and Science

[Steven Majewski]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Lizardo H. C. M.  Nunes wrote:

> Thank you all.
>
> I've just built Python with readline module.
>
> After "make test" what I got was:
> (...)
> 163 tests OK.
> 23 tests skipped:
>      test_al test_cd test_cl test_curses test_dl test_gdbm test_gl
>      test_imgfile test_largefile test_linuxaudiodev test_locale
>      test_minidom test_nis test_ntpath test_poll test_pyexpat test_sax
>      test_socket_ssl test_socketserver test_sunaudiodev
>      test_unicode_file test_winreg test_winsound
> 3 skips unexpected on darwin:
>      test_sax test_locale test_pyexpat
>
> --- If there's something wrong, please give me a reply.
>

If you build and install expat (you can get if from SourceForge
and maybe Fink) two of those will go away: sax and pyexpat.
If you don't need to do any XML parsing, you can do without it,
but I expect that there are some higher level tools (xmlrpc?)
that depend on it. I'm not sure what the problem with locale is.

-- Steve Majewski