[py-dev] bug in py.test

[Carl Friedrich Bolz]

Hi!

Ondrej Certik wrote:
[snip]

> 
> The new module in the current directory is probably colliding with something in
> py.test. If I rename new to new2, then everything is fine and I got this
> result:
> 
> ...
> 
>     def foo():
> E    assert 1 == 0
> 
>>   assert 1 == 0
> 
> 
> [/tmp/test/abc-123</home/ondra/pytest/py-dist/py/code/source.py:215>:2]
> ================== tests finished: 21 failed in 1.46 seconds ===================
> 
> One of my modules is called "new", so I have to rename it because if this.
> 
> Is it a bug?

Not really, since the "new" module is really part of the standard 
library (which makes e.g. renaming it a bit hard :-)

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-new.html

Any library that uses this standard library module would break if you 
named your module new.

Thanks for being interested in py.test!

Cheers,

Carl Friedrich