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On 10/17/2014 05:57 AM, Fei Long Wang wrote:
> 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.

Hey Fei Long,

Thanks for taking care of this, please keep me in the loop.

@Jeremy: Thanks for the heads up

Flavio

> 
> 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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