[Biopython-dev] test_PopGen_SimCoal.py on Windows

[Peter]

2010/11/10 Tiago Antão <tiagoantao at gmail.com>:
>
> 2010/11/10 Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk>:
>> Hi Tiago
>>
>> Is/was test_PopGen_SimCoal.py working for you on Windows?
>> I'm getting "Output directory not created!" under Python 2.6
>
> This code is used 99.99% on Jython (as the fdist/dfdist code and
> genepop parser, BTW). I happen to test on Linux.
> I will fire my Windows machine and have a look, but I do not have it
> at hand. This will have to wait a few hours or a couple of days at
> most)
>
>
>> Now both Jython 2.5.1 and Python 2.6 give the same error,
>> "Output directory not created!" (progress I suppose).
>
> I cannot test this here, but I am 99% sure that the problem is the
> executable name (case sensitive on Windows and Mac, maybe even on
> Windows Jython?). If it is compiled with a capital S (seen happening)
> it might be a problem.

It could also be something with spaces in filenames, much
more common on Windows :(

>> P.S. On the bright side, both the FDist2 and DFDist tests are
>> passing on Windows on Python 2.6 and Jython 2.5.1 now
>> (after a couple of little tweaks).
>
> Were they failing on Jython? I do have a reasonable amount
> of users on my applications (jython based)...

I tweaked the executable checking in the unit tests, it now
looks for all four binaries required, and works on Windows
(both Python and Jython) and Mac (both Python and Jython).

Peter