Feature or enhancement

Currently, resources are binary -- they are either enabled or disabled. But sometimes it is useful to enable them partially or to specify a parameter for it. For example, recently addedtest_xpickle (#75572) takes more than 2 minutes on fast machine for each available Python version, so it is disabled by default and requires the extraxpickle resource. It would be handy to be able to run it only for the specified Python version, e.g.-u xpickle=2.7 would run it with Python 2.7.

This feature can also be used in#65784.

This feature the big-memory tests can be implemented as yet one parametrised extra resource. E.g.-u bigmem=16G instead of-M 16G.

This feature somewhere intersects with#108828 which I plan to extend to support values too.

There is a question whether we should support comma in values. I.e. whether-u foo=bar,baz should be interpreted as one resourcefoo with valuebar,baz or two resourcesfoo andbaz, the former with valuebar. For now I choose the latter option, as slightly simpler to implement, but this can be reconsidered in future. It will be a breaking change, but this is an internal API.

Linked PRs

• gh-143553: Add support for parametrized resources in regrtests #143554
• [3.14] gh-143553: Add support for parametrized resources in regrtests (GH-143554) #143555
• [3.13] gh-143553: Add support for parametrized resources in regrtests (GH-143554) #143556