Place PYTHONPATH to the environment when python is executed in a way that current shell environment is not affected. This also allows adding the old value of PYTHONPATH to the end of the new value (otherwise it would have been appended again and again when test_python is called). At the same time, use -B option to avoid writing .pyc files to bindings/python/* (which are not cleared out by distclean). Drop the (unused) prefix code which preserved the original stdout of the python program and opened sys.stdout to OUTPUT. In place of that there is now note how (debug) information can be printed to original stdout. --- test/test-lib.sh | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/test/test-lib.sh b/test/test-lib.sh index a7e6397c324e..ec2da0b7151c 100644 --- a/test/test-lib.sh +++ b/test/test-lib.sh @@ -1171,10 +1171,10 @@ test_emacs () { } test_python() { - export PYTHONPATH=$TEST_DIRECTORY/../bindings/python - - (echo "import sys; _orig_stdout=sys.stdout; sys.stdout=open('OUTPUT', 'w')"; cat) \ - | $NOTMUCH_PYTHON - + # Note: if there is need to print debug information from python program, + # use stdout = os.fdopen(6, 'w') or stderr = os.fdopen(7, 'w') + PYTHONPATH="$TEST_DIRECTORY/../bindings/python${PYTHONPATH:+:$PYTHONPATH}" \ + $NOTMUCH_PYTHON -B - > OUTPUT } test_ruby() { -- 2.8.2