Bug 911709 – dev-python/future-0.18.3 fails tests: SyntaxError: source code string cannot contain null bytes

• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2023-08-04 13:32:28 UTC]

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2020/07/04/gentoo-tinderbox/

Issue: dev-python/future-0.18.3 fails tests (PYTHON-3.12-SYSTEM).
Discovered on: amd64 (internal ref: python-3.12_tinderbox)

NOTE:
(PYTHON-3.12-SYSTEM) in the summary means that the bug was found on a machine that runs python-3.12 but this bug MAY or MAY NOT BE related to the new python version

[Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo 2023-08-04 13:32:31 UTC]

Created attachment 867019 [details]
build.log

build log and emerge --info

[Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo 2023-08-04 13:32:32 UTC]

Error(s) that match a know pattern in addition to what has been reported in the summary:


E       SyntaxError: source code string cannot contain null bytes
FAILED tests/test_future/test_builtins.py::BuiltinTest::test_compile - Syntax...

[Comment 3 Eli Schwartz 2024-02-02 04:29:33 UTC]

Not a blocker for python 3.12 porting, the test failure happens on python 3.11.

The title is inaccurate -- the use of python 3.12 on the system doesn't matter and isn't related to the PYTHON_TARGETS used.