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Python 3.14 compatibility
Currently, a bunch of tests are failing in CI under Python 3.14. They need to be inspected and addressed. I don't know if the patch would need test-only changes or more runtime compatibility fixes.
This might be a good first issue for somebody with network programming + multi-env testing + multi-python compat experience.
Thanks for bringing this issue to light! It sounds like a great opportunity for someone looking to dive into multi-Python compatibility. I recommend checking out the Python documentation on version-specific changes to help identify any potential breaking changes that could be affecting your tests. Keep up the good work!
@thearpankumar assigning issues to drive-by contributors is uncommon in open source. If you want to send a patch, file a PR.
@webknjaz Hey, i understand but i am a regular contributor if you see my profile but its ok. its general practice to assign the issue , if you don't want to follow it i don't think i will contribute then, thank you.
You can try and we'll see. I disagree that the practice is common, though. It most certainly is not. It might be different for cases when a contributor has a history of submitting PRs into a project and is known within that scope. First time contributing is almost always a drive-by by definition because those usually address a small thing once and never come back again.
@webknjaz so i checked the CI run, tox in 3.12 windows-2025 is also failing with 3.14 builds, i need to check what is up with that locally, what are version changes but any directions which way i should look ??
Some tests are flaky. And part of them may be addressed by solving #768 (smbd tried and got stuck in #772, it seems). There's also #770 and #777 that might help once complete.
When a flaky test fails a pytest run (through tox), the CI job will rerun it with more verbosity (and purposefully fail that rerun step even if the test succeeds). When a job fails (and is not marked as allowed to fail), the CI will auto-cancel other jobs in the same matrix.
Some of the suppressed warnings turned into errors in Python 3.14, I think. This might be the root cause for those failures. Somebody need to check that.
This seems like a legitimate failure you should be able to reproduce locally: https://github.com/cherrypy/cheroot/actions/runs/18230474859/job/51912515655#step:21:423 / https://github.com/cherrypy/cheroot/actions/runs/18230474859/job/51912516257#step:20:479.
I recommend you to focus on one small thing at a time and try to understand what causes it, whether it's reproducible consistently and so on. Document your findings and suggest small fixes where possible. Since some problems are difficult to grasp, the fixes might be difficult to judge and you'll need to get into detail when explaining what's broken and why you think the solution is right.
@webknjaz the CI have been fixed and this was my approach
Root Cause: Python 3.14 changed the default multiprocessing start method from fork to forkserver on Unix platforms, breaking pytest-xdist parallel execution.
Solution:
- Multiprocessing Fix (cheroot/test/conftest.py): - Force fork method on Python 3.14+ Unix systems - Skip on Windows (doesn't support fork) - Used contextlib.suppress for clean exception handling
- IOBase Warning Filter (pytest.ini): - Updated regex from "Exception ignored in." to "Exception ignored.*" - Python 3.14 changed error format to "Exception ignored while calling deallocator"
- Pre-commit Config (.pre-commit-config.yaml): - Set flake8 language_version: python3.11 to match CI - Prevents Python 3.14 incompatibility errors in flake8-annotations plugin
Result: All tests pass on Python 3.14 (Linux/Windows), fully backward compatible with 3.8-3.13.
CI run link - https://github.com/thearpankumar/cheroot/actions/runs/18244794980
1 doesn't sound right, seems weird and unjustified. 2 is probably fine (although, it's better to actually address the warnings) 3 looks totally unrelated as well, and already in place.
P.S. the text you posted looks like LLM slop, tbh.
Also, do you have any proof that xdist is problematic? Any upstream explanations/fixes?
@webknjaz you can check the changes i made so that the tests are passing now on python 3.14, and ya i used LLM to form that messeage any problem, becasue the causes are mentioned properly in msg right ??
also 3.14 is not even in stable release so the tools are not yet supported properly. you can check it, i found the issue made fixes that would work with have backward compatiblity.
@webknjaz feell free to paste any snippet of changes i did which is wrong. better i will raise a PR and mention the which of my fixes you think are problamatic and we will discuss to how to work on them.
also 3.14 is not even in stable release so the tools are not yet supported properly. you can check it, i found the issue made fixes that would work with have backward compatiblity.
That's incorrect. It's actually stable enough. The ecosystem is encouraged to start testing in the beta phase and the ABI is supposed to be stable already. But now we're in the release candidate stage. rc3 is almost final. Projects are encouraged to publish wheels made for 3.14 during the rc period.
ya i used LLM to form that messeage any problem, becasue the causes are mentioned properly in msg right ??
It's still your responsibility to fact-check what it spits out. If it lies to you, you're supposed to verify and make up your own mind. Since you didn't include any proof of those causes, they don't seem true to me. Well, maybe one out of 3 is close to being reasonable.
you can check the changes i made so that the tests are passing now on python 3.14
The CI might be green but it doesn't mean that the patch is correct. Suppressing problems without a reasonable justification is not a compatibility fix, it's just postponing breakage for later.