
The comment in the test should explain the issue sufficiently. Turns out that request/urllib3 use recv_into() instad of recv() on Python 3 so: Closes https://github.com/eventlet/eventlet/issues/315. This patch is contributed by Smarkets Limited.
The tests are intended to be run using Nose. http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/ To run tests, simply install nose, and then, in the eventlet tree, do: $ nosetests That's it! Its output is the same as unittest's output. It tends to emit a lot of tracebacks from various poorly-behaving tests, but they still (generally) pass.