Flaky tests

[rvagg]

We're getting this pretty regularly in node-gyp CI: https://travis-ci.com/github/nodejs/node-gyp/jobs/339883554

The command "npm test" exited with 0.
10714.02s$ GYP_MSVS_VERSION=2015 GYP_MSVS_OVERRIDE_PATH="C:\\Dummy" python -m pytest
1072============================= test session starts ==============================
1073platform linux -- Python 3.5.6, pytest-4.6.6, py-1.7.0, pluggy-0.13.1
1074rootdir: /home/travis/build/nodejs/node-gyp
1075collected 27 items                                                             
1076
1077gyp/pylib/gyp/MSVSSettings_test.py F.F.....                              [ 29%]
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I don't really know how to interpret the log output that follows, but it's been consistent. I can restart it in Travis and it should pass again, this shows up in maybe 50% of Travis runs and it seems to be most common on Node.js 12 + Python 3.5, but I don't have numbers to back that up.

[ryzokuken]

Thanks for reporting this. @targos can you reproduce this fail locally?

[targos]

It's probably the same problem as #7

[targos]

I don't have python 3.5 to test locally

[ryzokuken]

Good catch, it is infact that problem. It'd be a shame to not support Python 3.5. I'd try to look into it in a week or so.

[cclauss]

Python 3.5 EOLs in September https://devguide.python.org/#status-of-python-branches

[cclauss]

Can this issue be closed?