fix issue305 - ignore any problems in writing a pyc file, but print out a trace.

CHANGELOG

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ Changes between 2.3.5 and 2.4.DEV
 
 - remove implicit distribute_setup support from setup.py.
 
+- fix issue305: ignore any problems when writing pyc files.
+
 - integrate tab-completion on options through use of "argcomplete".
   Thanks Anthon van der Neut for the PR.
 

_pytest/assertion/rewrite.py

@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ class AssertionRewritingHook(object):
             raise
         return sys.modules[name]
 
-def _write_pyc(co, source_path, pyc):
+def _write_pyc(state, co, source_path, pyc):
     # Technically, we don't have to have the same pyc format as
     # (C)Python, since these "pycs" should never be seen by builtin
     # import. However, there's little reason deviate, and I hope
@@ -167,15 +167,11 @@ def _write_pyc(co, source_path, pyc):
         fp = open(pyc, "wb")
     except IOError:
         err = sys.exc_info()[1].errno
-        if err in [errno.ENOENT, errno.ENOTDIR]:
-            # This happens when we get a EEXIST in find_module creating the
-            # __pycache__ directory and __pycache__ is by some non-dir node.
+        state.trace("error writing pyc file at %s: errno=%s" %(pyc, err))
+        # we ignore any failure to write the cache file
+        # there are many reasons, permission-denied, __pycache__ being a
+        # file etc.
         return False
-        elif err == errno.EACCES:
-            # The directory is read-only; this can happen for example when
-            # running the tests in a package installed as root
-            return False
-        raise
     try:
         fp.write(imp.get_magic())
         fp.write(struct.pack("<l", mtime))
@@ -249,12 +245,12 @@ def _make_rewritten_pyc(state, fn, pyc, co):
     if sys.platform.startswith("win"):
         # Windows grants exclusive access to open files and doesn't have atomic
         # rename, so just write into the final file.
-        _write_pyc(co, fn, pyc)
+        _write_pyc(state, co, fn, pyc)
     else:
         # When not on windows, assume rename is atomic. Dump the code object
         # into a file specific to this process and atomically replace it.
         proc_pyc = pyc + "." + str(os.getpid())
-        if _write_pyc(co, fn, proc_pyc):
+        if _write_pyc(state, co, fn, proc_pyc):
             os.rename(proc_pyc, pyc)
 
 def _read_pyc(source, pyc):

testing/test_assertrewrite.py

@@ -419,3 +419,23 @@ def test_rewritten():
         res = testdir.runpytest()
         assert res.ret != 0
         assert "SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character" in res.stdout.str()
+
+
+    def test_write_pyc(self, testdir, tmpdir, monkeypatch):
+        from _pytest.assertion.rewrite import _write_pyc
+        from _pytest.assertion import AssertionState
+        try:
+            import __builtin__ as b
+        except ImportError:
+            import builtins as b
+        config = testdir.parseconfig([])
+        state = AssertionState(config, "rewrite")
+        source_path = tmpdir.ensure("source.py")
+        pycpath = tmpdir.join("pyc").strpath
+        assert _write_pyc(state, [1], source_path, pycpath)
+        def open(*args):
+            e = IOError()
+            e.errno = 10
+            raise e
+        monkeypatch.setattr(b, "open", open)
+        assert not _write_pyc(state, [1], source_path, pycpath)