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authorCarlton Gibson <carlton.gibson@noumenal.es>2019-10-09 12:06:07 +0200
committerCarlton Gibson <carlton.gibson@noumenal.es>2019-10-09 15:49:09 +0200
commit6801166a30f67a4e5e4ac4cede84a4e85ce8882a (patch)
tree0dad73df5b1e419600ee09506d01ae562eda0093
parent7ded25d7131f4246b8b000869c677d0bbe0377aa (diff)
[3.0.x] Added note to check Python version in unit tests troubleshooting section.
At DjangoCon US 2019 sprints, a number of contributors hit problems with an outdated Python. Backport of 06e087c3ded703b334a4d7c74a882212774253bc from master
-rw-r--r--docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/unit-tests.txt7
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diff --git a/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/unit-tests.txt b/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/unit-tests.txt
index 29a9fbc4d0..e9db0fe44a 100644
--- a/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/unit-tests.txt
+++ b/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/unit-tests.txt
@@ -373,6 +373,13 @@ in ``tests/auth_tests``.
Troubleshooting
===============
+Test suite hangs or shows failures on ``master`` branch
+-------------------------------------------------------
+
+Ensure you have the latest point release of a :ref:`supported Python version
+<faq-python-version-support>`, since there are often bugs in earlier versions
+that may cause the test suite to fail or hang.
+
Many test failures with ``UnicodeEncodeError``
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