[Biopython-dev] Minor buildbot issues from SearchIO

[Peter Cock]

Hi all,

The BuildBot flagged two new issues overnight,
http://testing.open-bio.org/biopython/tgrid

Python 2.5 on Windows - doctests are failing due to floating point decimal place
differences in the exponent (down to C library differences, something fixed in
later Python releases). Perhaps a Python 2.5 hack is the way to go here?
http://testing.open-bio.org/biopython/builders/Windows%20XP%20-%20Python%202.5/builds/664/steps/shell/logs/stdio

Python 3.2 and 3.3 on Windows are showing some XML character encoding oddity.
Perhaps there is some encoding setting needed under Python 3 for the BLAST
XML files?
http://testing.open-bio.org/biopython/builders/Windows%20XP%20-%20Python%203.2/builds/512/steps/shell/logs/stdio
http://testing.open-bio.org/biopython/builders/Windows%20XP%20-%20Python%203.3/builds/29/steps/shell/logs/stdio

There is a separate cross-platform issue on Python 3.1, "TypeError:
invalid event tuple"
again with XML parsing. Curiously this had started a few days back in
the UniprotIO
tests on one machine, pre-dating the SearchIO merge. I'm not sure what
triggered it.
http://testing.open-bio.org/biopython/builders/Linux%20-%20Python%203.1/builds/767
http://testing.open-bio.org/biopython/builders/Linux%2064%20-%20Python%203.1/builds/766/steps/shell/logs/stdio
http://testing.open-bio.org/biopython/builders/Windows%20XP%20-%20Python%203.1/builds/648/steps/shell/logs/stdio

(Note TravisCI doesn't officially support Python 3.1, although until recently
they did offer it unofficially - Python 3.3 support is happening soon through).

Peter