bug#59477: python-tests fail without tree-sitter

["Mattias Engdegård" <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>]

28 nov. 2022 kl. 16.18 skrev kobarity <kobarity@gmail.com>:

> It seems
> to be a bug that has existed for some time on Mac.  Here is the trace
> on my Ubuntu.

Right, it looks like the input lines aren't echoed. (Conversing through a TTY is really a terrible mode for issuing commands and getting replies reliably.)

> As for `python-ffap-module-path-1', it assumes that
> `python-ffap-module-path' and its underlying
> `python-shell-send-string-no-output' operate correctly.  So I think
> the first option is to mark as an expected failure on Mac as the
> attached patch.  However, I'm not sure if it fails on all Macs.
> Another option may be to add :unstable tag.  Which do you think is
> better?

It's probably best to always skip the test on macOS, since there is no telling whether the Python used is the system-supplied one with libedit or one where the user installed readline. That's the change that I ended up pushing.

Thanks for your kind help!