``test_os.test_attributes()`` fails on Windows
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Description
Bug report
Bug description:
./python -m test -v test_os
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FAIL: test_attributes (test.test_os.TestScandir.test_attributes)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\eclips4\programming\cpython\Lib\test\test_os.py", line 5040, in test_attributes
self.check_entry(entry, 'dir', True, False, False)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\eclips4\programming\cpython\Lib\test\test_os.py", line 5008, in check_entry
self.assert_stat_equal(entry.stat(),
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
entry_stat,
^^^^^^^^^^^
os.name == 'nt' and not is_symlink)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\eclips4\programming\cpython\Lib\test\test_os.py", line 4967, in assert_stat_equal
self.assertEqual(getattr(stat1, attr),
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
getattr(stat2, attr),
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(stat1, stat2, attr))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError: 16 != 268435472 : (os.stat_result(st_mode=16895, st_ino=0, st_dev=0, st_nlink=0, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_size=0, st_atime=1730398311, st_mtime=1730398311, st_ctime=1730398311), os.stat_result(st_mode=16895, st_ino=5066549580979864, st_dev=2642700522657803134, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_size=0, st_atime=1730398311, st_mtime=1730398311, st_ctime=1730398311), 'st_file_attributes')
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Ran 367 tests in 16.254s
FAILED (failures=1, skipped=146)
test test_os failed
test_os failed (1 failure)
== Tests result: FAILURE ==
1 test failed:
test_os
Total duration: 21.1 sec
Total tests: run=367 failures=1 skipped=146
Total test files: run=1/1 failed=1
Result: FAILURE
CPython versions tested on:
CPython main branch
Operating systems tested on:
Windows
Linked PRs
- gh-156305
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Research direction
Run ./python -m test -v test_os on Windows and read Lib/test/test_os.py around test_attributes, check_entry, and assert_stat_equal. Compare the failure with linked PR gh-156305; done means test_os passes on Windows without the reported st_file_attributes mismatch.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- operating-systems, testing-qa
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100