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Hi Jeremy,

Thanks for the heads up. Is there a bug opened to track this? If not,
I'm going to open one and dig into it. Cheers.

On 17/10/14 14:17, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> As part of an effort to deprecate our specialized testing platform
> for Python 3.3, many of us have been working to confirm projects
> which currently gate on 3.3 can also pass their same test sets under
> Python 3.4 (which comes by default in Ubuntu Trusty). For the vast
> majority of projects, the differences between 3.3 and 3.4 are
> immaterial and no effort is required. For some, minor adjustments
> are needed...
>
> For python-glanceclient, we have 22 failing tests in a tox -e py34
> run. I spent the better part of today digging into them, and they
> basically all stem from the fact that PEP 456 switches the unordered
> data hash algorithm from FNV to SipHash in 3.4. The unit tests in
> python-glanceclient frequently rely on trying to match
> multi-parameter URL queries and JSON built from unordered data types
> against predetermined string representations. Put simply, this just
> doesn't work if you can't guarantee their ordering.
>
> I'm left with a dilemma--I don't really have time to fix all of
> these (I started to go through and turn the fixture keys into format
> strings embedding dicts filtered through urlencode() for example,
> but it created as many new failures as it fixed), however I'd hate
> to drop Py3K testing for software which currently has it no matter
> how fragile. This is mainly a call for help to anyone with some
> background and/or interest in python-glanceclient's unit tests to
> get them working under Python 3.4, so that we can eliminate the
> burden of maintaining special 3.3 test infrastructure.

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Fei Long Wang (王飞龙)
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