Humanize tests fail randomly

[Anssi Kääriäinen]

I have now gotten two times this error:

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FAIL: test_naturaltime (django.contrib.humanize.tests.HumanizeTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/akaj/Django/tests/django/contrib/humanize/tests.py", line 162, in test_naturaltime
    self.humanize_tester(test_list, result_list, 'naturaltime')
  File "/home/akaj/Django/tests/django/contrib/humanize/tests.py", line 22, in humanize_tester
    msg="%s test failed, produced '%s', should've produced '%s'" % (method, rendered, result))
AssertionError: u'31 seconds ago' != u'30 seconds ago' : naturaltime test failed, produced '31 seconds ago', should've produced '30 seconds ago'

(The another time was 2 minutes ago <> 1 minute ago).

I am using an old laptop, so timing issues are more likely to pop out on my setup. And this is almost certainly because of timing issues.

BTW is it correct to mark the component as testing framework?

[Julien Phalip]

I can imagine this problem happen on slow machines since the datetime.now() function is effectively called twice: first in the test and then again in the naturaltime filter.

Maybe a more robust way of testing would be to temporarily monkey-patch the datetime.now() function in the humanize tests.

[Claude Paroz]

Probably fixed by changeset:17023