I just unpacked "python-txamqp-0.2.1.tar.bz2", cd'ed into the resulting "python-txamqp-0.2.1/src/" and ran "trial txamqp", and every test ERRORed:
zooko@zooko-desktop:~/src$ tar xf ../incoming/python-txamqp-0.2.1.tar.bz2
zooko@zooko-desktop:~/src$ cd python-txamqp-0.2.1/src/
zooko@zooko-desktop:~/src/python-txamqp-0.2.1/src$ trial --rterrors txamqp
txamqp.test.test_basic
BasicTests
test_ack ... Traceback (most recent call last):
Failure: twisted.internet.error.ConnectionRefusedError: Connection was refused by other side: 111: Connection refused.
[ERROR]
test_cancel ... Traceback (most recent call last):
Failure: twisted.internet.error.ConnectionRefusedError: Connection was refused by other side: 111: Connection refused.
[ERROR]
test_consume_exclusive ... Traceback (most recent call last):
Failure: twisted.internet.error.ConnectionRefusedError: Connection was refused by other side: 111: Connection refused.
[ERROR]
test_consume_no_local ... Traceback (most recent call last):
Failure: twisted.internet.error.ConnectionRefusedError: Connection was refused by other side: 111: Connection refused.
[ERROR]
test_consume_queue_errors ... Traceback (most recent call last):
Failure: twisted.internet.error.ConnectionRefusedError: Connection was refused by other side: 111: Connection refused.
[ERROR]
test_consume_unique_consumers ... Traceback (most recent call last):
Failure: twisted.internet.error.ConnectionRefusedError: Connection was refused by other side: 111: Connection refused.
[ERROR]
test_get ... Traceback (most recent call last):
Failure: twisted.internet.error.ConnectionRefusedError: Connection was refused by other side: 111: Connection refused.
[ERROR]
test_qos_prefetch_count ... Traceback (most recent call last):
Failure: twisted.internet.error.ConnectionRefusedError: Connection was refused by other side: 111: Connection refused.
[ERROR]
test_qos_prefetch_size ... Traceback (most recent call last):
Failure: twisted.internet.error.ConnectionRefusedError: Connection was refused by other side: 111: Connection refused.
I infer that some sort of setup step is required before running the tests, but there is no README or other document instructing me in how to set it up.
Also, of course, it would be ideal if the tests worked without any manual setup step aside from the normal command to launch tests.
Okay, I've investigated and I see that the tests are all designed to work against an AMQP broker. So, let me change my "it would be ideal" above to say "it would be ideal if there were unit tests that tested the txAMQP source code separately from the behavior of any broker, in addition to these system tests which test the behavior of the txAMQP source code against a broker.
But anyway, I'm writing a patch to emit an error message explaining about the need for a broker to run the tests.