Is there a Python installation test script available?

[ITVictim]

Does anyone know if there is a test-script available that covers most of Python's functionality? I want to run a test script after installing Python on a new platform, and I wanted some confirmation that some obscure piece of functionality hasn't tripped up.

This sound paranoid, but we had a language setting problem in one installation that meant that all decimal points were rounded down. This was because an application we were interfacing with was using a comma to mark the decimal place, whereas Python was using a point.

Regards,

Mike

 

[ericbrunson]

If you are building from source you do a "make test".

 

[ITVictim]

Thank for that, Eric.

I've had a problem with it, however. I looked "make test" up on python.org, and I found this page:

http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/lib/regrtest.html.

This mentions make test (for UNIX) and rt.bat (for PC), as well as the 'test' module.

As I'm on PC, I tried to use rt.bat - but it doesn't appear to be on my machine or network (this is a network installation, and I'm not the owner). The 'test' module imports, but appears to be empty - and certainly doesn't contain the advertised 'regrtest' function.

Just an incomplete installation, do you think?

Regards,

Mike