Function setUpModule

Lib/test/test_io/test_largefile.py:260–293

()

def setUpModule():
    try:
        import signal
        # The default handler for SIGXFSZ is to abort the process.
        # By ignoring it, system calls exceeding the file size resource
        # limit will raise OSError instead of crashing the interpreter.
        signal.signal(signal.SIGXFSZ, signal.SIG_IGN)
    except (ImportError, AttributeError):
        pass

    # On Windows and Mac OSX this test consumes large resources; It
    # takes a long time to build the >2 GiB file and takes >2 GiB of disk
    # space therefore the resource must be enabled to run this test.
    # If not, nothing after this line stanza will be executed.
    if sys.platform[:3] == 'win' or sys.platform == 'darwin':
        requires('largefile',
                 'test requires %s bytes and a long time to run' % str(size))
    else:
        # Only run if the current filesystem supports large files.
        # (Skip this test on Windows, since we now always support
        # large files.)
        f = open(TESTFN, 'wb', buffering=0)
        try:
            # 2**31 == 2147483648
            f.seek(2147483649)
            # Seeking is not enough of a test: you must write and flush, too!
            f.write(b'x')
            f.flush()
        except (OSError, OverflowError):
            raise unittest.SkipTest("filesystem does not have "
                                    "largefile support")
        finally:
            f.close()
            unlink(TESTFN)


class CLargeFileTest(TestFileMethods, unittest.TestCase):