[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#811002: Please help tracking down this issue in test suite [Was: Bug#811002: python-ruffus: FTBFS: sre_constants.error: unbalanced parenthesis at position 2]

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Hi Andreas,

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 09:48:21PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm forwarding this issue of the test suite to upstream and Debian
> Python mailing list since I admit I have no idea what might be wrong
> here.
>
> [...]
>   
>   First differing element 1:
>   test1: regular expression regex('.*)') is malformed
>   [sre_constants.error: (unbalanced parenthesis at position 2)]
>   test1: regular expression regex('.*)') is malformed
>   [sre_constants.error: (unbalanced parenthesis)]
>   
>     ('Dummy Task',
>      "test1: regular expression regex('.*)') is malformed\n"
>   -  '[sre_constants.error: (unbalanced parenthesis at position 2)]')
>   ?                                                --------------
>   
>   +  '[sre_constants.error: (unbalanced parenthesis)]')

This is definitely a change between Python 3.4 and 3.5 (exception string was
improved), see:

https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/292c4d853662
http://bugs.python.org/22578

--
Dmitry Shachnev
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