[3.12] pythongh-140702: Add test skip for Unix Datagram tests on iOS when on Github Actions (pythonGH-140740) (python#140742)

Exposes the GITHUB_ACTIONS environment variable to iOS simulator test runs, and
uses this variable to skip a Unix Datagram socketserver test that is unreliable
in the iOS GitHub Actions environment.
(cherry picked from commit 9f8d005)

Co-authored-by: Russell Keith-Magee <russell@keith-magee.com>
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <1324225+hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: 3 people

Apple/iOS/README.md

@@ -224,6 +224,17 @@ Once you have a built an XCframework, you can test that framework by running:
 
   $ python Apple test iOS
 
+This test will attempt to find an "SE-class" simulator (i.e., an iPhone SE, or
+iPhone 16e, or similar), and run the test suite on the most recent version of
+iOS that is available. You can specify a simulator using the `--simulator`
+command line argument, providing the name of the simulator (e.g., `--simulator
+'iPhone 16 Pro'`). You can also use this argument to control the OS version used
+for testing; `--simulator 'iPhone 16 Pro,OS=18.2'` would attempt to run the
+tests on an iPhone 16 Pro running iOS 18.2.
+
+If the test runner is executed on GitHub Actions, the `GITHUB_ACTIONS`
+environment variable will be exposed to the iOS process at runtime.
+
 ### Testing a single-architecture framework
 
 The `Apple/testbed` folder that contains an Xcode project that is able to run

Apple/testbed/TestbedTests/TestbedTests.m

@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ - (void)testPython {
     setenv("NO_COLOR", "1", true);
     setenv("PYTHON_COLORS", "0", true);
 
+    if (getenv("GITHUB_ACTIONS")) {
+        NSLog(@"Running in a GitHub Actions environment");
+    }
     // Arguments to pass into the test suite runner.
     // argv[0] must identify the process; any subsequent arg
     // will be handled as if it were an argument to `python -m test`

Apple/testbed/__main__.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import argparse
 import json
+import os
 import re
 import shutil
 import subprocess
@@ -78,13 +79,21 @@ def xcode_test(location: Path, platform: str, simulator: str, verbose: bool):
         check=True,
     )
 
+    # Any environment variable prefixed with TEST_RUNNER_ is exposed into the
+    # test runner environment. There are some variables (like those identifying
+    # CI platforms) that can be useful to have access to.
+    test_env = os.environ.copy()
+    if "GITHUB_ACTIONS" in os.environ:
+        test_env["TEST_RUNNER_GITHUB_ACTIONS"] = os.environ["GITHUB_ACTIONS"]
+
     print("Running test project...")
     # Test execution *can't* be run -quiet; verbose mode
     # is how we see the output of the test output.
     process = subprocess.Popen(
         ["xcodebuild", "test-without-building"] + args,
         stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
         stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
+        env=test_env,
     )
     while line := (process.stdout.readline()).decode(*DECODE_ARGS):
         # Strip the timestamp/process prefix from each log line

Lib/test/support/__init__.py

@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
     "Py_DEBUG", "EXCEEDS_RECURSION_LIMIT", "C_RECURSION_LIMIT",
     "skip_on_s390x",
     "BrokenIter",
+    "reset_code", "on_github_actions"
     ]
 
 
@@ -1238,6 +1239,8 @@ def requires_specialization(test):
         opcode.ENABLE_SPECIALIZATION, "requires specialization")(test)
 
 
+on_github_actions = "GITHUB_ACTIONS" in os.environ
+
 #=======================================================================
 # Check for the presence of docstrings.
 

Lib/test/test_socketserver.py

@@ -218,12 +218,16 @@ def test_ForkingUDPServer(self):
                             self.dgram_examine)
 
     @requires_unix_sockets
+    @unittest.skipIf(test.support.is_apple_mobile and test.support.on_github_actions,
+                     "gh-140702: Test fails regularly on iOS simulator on GitHub Actions")
     def test_UnixDatagramServer(self):
         self.run_server(socketserver.UnixDatagramServer,
                         socketserver.DatagramRequestHandler,
                         self.dgram_examine)
 
     @requires_unix_sockets
+    @unittest.skipIf(test.support.is_apple_mobile and test.support.on_github_actions,
+                     "gh-140702: Test fails regularly on iOS simulator on GitHub Actions")
     def test_ThreadingUnixDatagramServer(self):
         self.run_server(socketserver.ThreadingUnixDatagramServer,
                         socketserver.DatagramRequestHandler,

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2025-10-29-15-20-19.gh-issue-140702.ZXtW8h.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+The iOS testbed app will now expose the ``GITHUB_ACTIONS`` environment
+variable to iOS apps being tested.