regrtest can fail writing unencodable test description or status

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I already fixed errors related to non-ASCII skip messages (by using ascii() instead of str() or repr()). There may be other non-ASCII skip messages left, but they are not raised on buildbots with non-UTF-8 stdout. In any case, this only fixed CPython tests, user tests can have the same issues.

#135121 exposed a new issue -- subtest description which includes non-ASCII parameter values. It is more difficult, because we have no control on formatting them. Always using ascii() instead of repr() will harm readability on normal platforms.

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The following tests passes in unittest and in libregrtest with a single process, but fails in libregrtest with multiple processes.

import unittest
class TestNonASCII(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_docstring(self):
        """\u20ac"""
    def test_subtest(self):
        with self.subTest(param='\u20ac'):
            pass
    def test_skip(self):
        self.skipTest('\u20ac')

When run with unittest, the output stream is stderr with the backslashreplace error handler. In libregrtest with a single process, the output stream is stdout with the backslashreplace error handler, but in multi-process mode -- with the strict error handler.

@vstinner

cc @vstinner

pythongh-135124: Change stdout errors in regrtest worker process

I proposed #135138 to fix the issue.

gh-135124: Change stdout errors in regrtest worker process (#135138)

pythongh-135124: Change stdout errors in regrtest worker process (pyt…

[3.14] gh-135124: Change stdout errors in regrtest worker process (GH…

[3.13] gh-135124: Change stdout errors in regrtest worker process (GH…

pythongh-135124: Change stdout errors in regrtest worker process (pyt…

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serhiy-storchaka commented on Jun 4, 2025

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