[Docutils-develop] [docutils:bugs] Re: #434 Error when running the test suite for Docutils on Windows 10.

[Günter M. <mi...@us...>]

> I ran the tests again, and it works perfectly now. (On Python 2)

Good news.

> However, on Python 3, it fails with 

> ```pwsh
> PS D:\<redacted>\docutils-code-r8892-trunk> py docutils/test/alltests.py
> Unable to create process using '/bin/sh docutils/test/alltests.py'
> ```

It seems the 
[Python laucher for Windows](https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html#python-launcher-for-windows)
tries to get the required python version from the 
(shebang line)[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7061449/what-is-a-shebang-line].

Unfortunately, alltest.py uses a workaround to pass the -u option to python::

    #!/bin/sh
    ''''exec python -u "$0" "$@" #'''

which could explain why `py` wants to launch `/bin/sh`.

You may need to specify the names of the python3.x executable(s) (possibly also
the full path). On my system, this is 

    .../docutils/test> python3 docutils/test/alltests.py
    .../docutils/test> python3.5 docutils/test/alltests.py
    .../docutils/test> python3.9 docutils/test/alltests.py


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** [bugs:#434] Error when running the test suite for Docutils on Windows 10.**

**Status:** open
**Labels:** test 
**Created:** Sun Nov 14, 2021 03:34 PM UTC by PotentialUser-54
**Last Updated:** Fri Nov 19, 2021 02:39 AM UTC
**Owner:** nobody


Running the test suite for Docutils on Windows 10 using [the instructions](https://docutils.sourceforge.io/README.html#running-the-test-suite) fails.

As instructed, I am now opening this bug report after checking that there is not already one.

```pwsh
PS <redacted>\docutils\docutils\test> python alltests.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<redacted>\docutils\docutils\test\alltests.py", line 93, in <module>
    suite = suite()
  File "<redacted>\docutils\docutils\test\alltests.py", line 80, in suite
    suite = package_unittest.loadTestModules(DocutilsTestSupport.testroot,
  File "<redacted>\docutils\docutils\test\package_unittest.py", line 102, in loadTestModules
    module = import_module(mod)
  File "<redacted>\docutils\docutils\test\package_unittest.py", line 133, in import_module
    mod = __import__(name)
  File "<redacted>\docutils\docutils\test\test_error_reporting.py", line 212, in <module>
    class SafeStringTests_locale(unittest.TestCase):
  File "<redacted>\docutils\docutils\test\test_error_reporting.py", line 225, in SafeStringTests_locale
    open(b'\xfc')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xfc in position 0: invalid start byte
```

```pwsh
PS <redacted>\docutils\docutils\test> python ../tools/quicktest.py --version
quicktest.py (Docutils 0.18 [release])
PS <redacted>\docutils\docutils\test> python --version
Python 3.9.6
```


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