[Biopython-dev] test_PhyloXML.py failing on Windows

[Peter]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Eric Talevich <eric.talevich at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Apparently Windows doesn't like renaming a file to replace another existing
> file. To fix this error asap I'll call os.remove before the rename, ...

I had to add other similar check before it would run on my machine.

> but you're right that these tests should be rewritten to use named temp
> files or StringIO. (I needed to trick unittest into re-running the parser
> tests on re-written files and this sufficed last summer)

OK, something for the TODO list. Should we file a bug to remind us?

Peter