From 571ca6bd747c4b0a3b4d5d004e45c19f456cdcb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joern Hees Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 19:16:58 +0200 Subject: added failing test for narrow python builds, closes #456 --- test/test_wide_python.py | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) create mode 100644 test/test_wide_python.py diff --git a/test/test_wide_python.py b/test/test_wide_python.py new file mode 100644 index 00000000..feef4519 --- /dev/null +++ b/test/test_wide_python.py @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ + +def test_wide_python_build(): + """This test is meant to fail on narrow python builds (common on Mac OS X). + + See https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/issues/456 for more information. + """ + assert len(u'\U0010FFFF') == 1, ( + 'You are using a narrow Python build!\n' + 'This means that your Python does not properly support chars > 16bit.\n' + 'On your system chars like c=u"\\U0010FFFF" will have a len(c)==2.\n' + 'As this can cause hard to debug problems with string processing\n' + '(slicing, regexp, ...) later on, we strongly advise to use a wide\n' + 'Python build in production systems.' + ) -- cgit v1.2.1