From 22e4182d6065b63532e7af8b14485ce0ab0075db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Barry Warsaw Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 18:31:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Describe -s a little more generically. --- Lib/test/regrtest.py | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Lib/test/regrtest.py b/Lib/test/regrtest.py index 5866d433eb0..43e630ebf02 100755 --- a/Lib/test/regrtest.py +++ b/Lib/test/regrtest.py @@ -23,11 +23,12 @@ -v is incompatible with -g and does not compare test output files. --s means to run only a single test and exit. This is useful when Purifying -the Python interpreter. The file /tmp/pynexttest is read to find the next -test to run. If this file is missing, the first test_*.py file in testdir or -on the command line is used. (actually tempfile.gettempdir() is used instead -of /tmp). +-s means to run only a single test and exit. This is useful when doing memory +analysis on the Python interpreter (which tend to consume to many resources to +run the full regression test non-stop). The file /tmp/pynexttest is read to +find the next test to run. If this file is missing, the first test_*.py file +in testdir or on the command line is used. (actually tempfile.gettempdir() is +used instead of /tmp). """