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23477	test failures run from 1.7; test_serialize, test_simple_migration	Ian Delaney	nobody	"There's another issue opened a week ago re test_serialize however the commit/patch that declares the fix doesn't take.


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#!python
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ERROR: test_serialize (migrations.test_writer.WriterTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ""/mnt/gen2/TmpDir/portage/dev-python/django-1.7/work/Django-1.7/tests/migrations/test_writer.py"", line 93, in test_serialize
    self.assertSerializedEqual(datetime.datetime.utcnow)
  File ""/mnt/gen2/TmpDir/portage/dev-python/django-1.7/work/Django-1.7/tests/migrations/test_writer.py"", line 52, in assertSerializedEqual
    self.assertEqual(self.serialize_round_trip(value), value)
  File ""/mnt/gen2/TmpDir/portage/dev-python/django-1.7/work/Django-1.7/tests/migrations/test_writer.py"", line 48, in serialize_round_trip
    string, imports = MigrationWriter.serialize(value)
  File ""/mnt/gen2/TmpDir/portage/dev-python/django-1.7/work/Django-1.7/django/db/migrations/writer.py"", line 380, in serialize
    raise ValueError(""Cannot serialize: %r\nThere are some values Django cannot serialize into migration files.\nFor more, see https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/migrations/#migration-serializing"" % value)
ValueError: Cannot serialize: <bound method type.utcnow of <class 'datetime.datetime'>>
There are some values Django cannot serialize into migration files.
For more, see https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/migrations/#migration-serializing

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ERROR: test_simple_migration (migrations.test_writer.WriterTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ""/mnt/gen2/TmpDir/portage/dev-python/django-1.7/work/Django-1.7/tests/migrations/test_writer.py"", line 244, in test_simple_migration
    output = writer.as_string()
  File ""/mnt/gen2/TmpDir/portage/dev-python/django-1.7/work/Django-1.7/django/db/migrations/writer.py"", line 129, in as_string
    operation_string, operation_imports = OperationWriter(operation).serialize()
  File ""/mnt/gen2/TmpDir/portage/dev-python/django-1.7/work/Django-1.7/django/db/migrations/writer.py"", line 80, in serialize
    arg_string, arg_imports = MigrationWriter.serialize(item)
  File ""/mnt/gen2/TmpDir/portage/dev-python/django-1.7/work/Django-1.7/django/db/migrations/writer.py"", line 245, in serialize
    item_string, item_imports = cls.serialize(item)
  File ""/mnt/gen2/TmpDir/portage/dev-python/django-1.7/work/Django-1.7/django/db/migrations/writer.py"", line 310, in serialize
    return cls.serialize_deconstructed(path, args, kwargs)
  File ""/mnt/gen2/TmpDir/portage/dev-python/django-1.7/work/Django-1.7/django/db/migrations/writer.py"", line 221, in serialize_deconstructed
    arg_string, arg_imports = cls.serialize(arg)
  File ""/mnt/gen2/TmpDir/portage/dev-python/django-1.7/work/Django-1.7/django/db/migrations/writer.py"", line 380, in serialize
    raise ValueError(""Cannot serialize: %r\nThere are some values Django cannot serialize into migration files.\nFor more, see https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/migrations/#migration-serializing"" % value)
ValueError: Cannot serialize: <bound method type.utcnow of <class 'datetime.datetime'>>
There are some values Django cannot serialize into migration files.
For more, see https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/migrations/#migration-serializing

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Ran 7215 tests in 956.466s

FAILED (errors=2, skipped=534, expected failures=8)
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under all pythons.  I expect you'll tell me it passes fine.
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