test: let the interop suites find a Python that actually has h5py

Every Python interop suite had stopped running on this machine: the h5py
writer round-trips, the facade suite, netCDF4 and the reference files.
`python3` is 3.14, nothing on the box has h5py, and PEP 668 refuses to
install it into a system interpreter at all — so the availability probes
all returned false and each suite skipped without failing.

A silent skip here is exactly how the v5 compound-datatype bug reached a
release, so the probes now read `CLAWHDF5_PYTHON` and `ci-test.sh` picks
up `.venv/bin/python` on its own. The detection sits at the top of the
script rather than beside the interop step, because the non-ignored
suites run in the earlier `cargo test` step and would otherwise still
miss it. `CLAWHDF5_REQUIRE_INTEROP=1` continues to turn a skip into a
failure.

Verified against a venv with h5py 3.16 / HDF5 2.0.0: 94 interop tests
across the four suites, all passing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent c0a9206703
commit a29c1b224b
8 changed files with 86 additions and 16 deletions
@@ -2,6 +2,15 @@
use clawhdf5_format::data_read::{read_object_references, read_region_references};
use clawhdf5_format::datatype::{Datatype, ReferenceType};
/// The Python interpreter to drive interop checks with.
///
/// `CLAWHDF5_PYTHON` lets these run against a virtualenv holding h5py, which
/// on a PEP 668 "externally managed" system is the only place it can be
/// installed. Without it the suite silently skips, and a silent skip here is
/// how a datatype bug once reached a release.
fn python() -> String {
std::env::var("CLAWHDF5_PYTHON").unwrap_or_else(|_| "python3".to_string())
}
#[test]
fn object_ref_single_valid() {
@@ -173,7 +182,7 @@ print('ok')
"#,
path.display()
);
let output = std::process::Command::new("python3")
let output = std::process::Command::new(python())
.args(["-c", &script])
.output();