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Test suite fails on Windows: unescaped path regex in testArgPassing, NamedTemporaryFile reopen in testFileNameFire #693

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@MohammedAlkindi

On a fresh clone on Windows, the test suite fails 2 of 261 tests, both in fire/main_test.py and both Windows-specific. CI currently runs macos-latest + ubuntu-latest only, so neither can be caught there.

FAILED fire/main_test.py::MainModuleTest::testArgPassing - re.PatternError: bad escape \p at position 5
FAILED fire/main_test.py::MainModuleFileTest::testFileNameFire - PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\...\\tmponwjvj2u.py'
2 failed, 259 passed in 6.30s

Environment: Windows 11, Python 3.13.13, pip install -e . pytest hypothesis, clone at current master.

1. testArgPassing — unescaped path in a regex. assertOutputMatches treats its argument as a regex, and the test interpolates os.path.join('part1', 'part2', 'part3') unescaped. On Windows that's part1\part2\part3, and \p has been a hard error (re.PatternError) since Python 3.12. POSIX never sees it because / needs no escaping. The open PR #679 fixes exactly this with re.escape(); applying its change locally takes the suite to 1 failed / 260 passed, so it would be lovely to see it merged.

2. testFileNameFireNamedTemporaryFile can't be reopened while open on Windows. MainModuleFileTest.setUp keeps the temp .py file open, and fire.__main__.import_from_file_pathexec_module then opens it a second time for import. That second open is the documented Windows limitation of NamedTemporaryFile ("the name cannot be used to open the file a second time while it is still open"), and it surfaces as PermissionError inside the import machinery. This is test-harness-only: python -m fire somefile.py itself works fine on Windows.

Fix I verified locally for (2) — with it (plus #679's change), the whole suite passes on this machine, 261 passed in 1.65s, and it stays green on POSIX semantics:

   def setUp(self):
     super().setUp()
-    self.file = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix='.py')  # pylint: disable=consider-using-with
+    self.file = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix='.py', delete=False)  # pylint: disable=consider-using-with
     self.file.write(b'class Foo:\n  def double(self, n):\n    return 2 * n\n')
-    self.file.flush()
+    self.file.close()
+    self.addCleanup(os.unlink, self.file.name)

-    self.file2 = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile()  # pylint: disable=consider-using-with
+    self.file2 = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False)  # pylint: disable=consider-using-with
+    self.file2.close()
+    self.addCleanup(os.unlink, self.file2.name)

(delete_on_close=False would be tidier but is 3.12+, and setup.py still advertises 3.7 support.)

I'm reporting this as an issue rather than sending the patch because I haven't signed the Google CLA yet. Happy for anyone — including the author of #679 — to fold the diff above into a PR. Also happy to follow up with a windows-latest line for the CI matrix discussion if that's of interest, though I understand that's a bigger decision than these two fixes.

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