On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> wrote:

Are you just running make targets from Python or are you trying to parse

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all the make tests into a richer (and more compact) Python representation?

The latter.

Right, so you need to interpret a little bit of shell, at least to the extent of expanding some variables and determining which output file to test against. Also, there are some examples that | sort or | grep -v, so you may need to recognize that. I like the semantic information of having multiple tests using the same base options and/or comparing to the same output (rather than normalizing when you specify the tests).