Fix env. variable type issue in testing (#21609)

* fix env issue

* fix env issue

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Co-authored-by: ydshieh <ydshieh@users.noreply.github.com>

src/transformers/testing_utils.py

@@ -1728,7 +1728,7 @@ def is_flaky(max_attempts: int = 5, wait_before_retry: Optional[float] = None, d
     return decorator
 
 
-def run_test_in_subprocess(test_case, target_func, inputs=None, timeout=600):
+def run_test_in_subprocess(test_case, target_func, inputs=None, timeout=None):
     """
     To run a test in a subprocess. In particular, this can avoid (GPU) memory issue.
 
@@ -1739,9 +1739,12 @@ def run_test_in_subprocess(test_case, target_func, inputs=None, timeout=600):
             The function implementing the actual testing logic.
         inputs (`dict`, *optional*, defaults to `None`):
             The inputs that will be passed to `target_func` through an (input) queue.
-        timeout (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 600):
-            The timeout (in seconds) that will be passed to the input and output queues.
+        timeout (`int`, *optional*, defaults to `None`):
+            The timeout (in seconds) that will be passed to the input and output queues. If not specified, the env.
+            variable `PYTEST_TIMEOUT` will be checked. If still `None`, its value will be set to `600`.
     """
+    if timeout is None:
+        timeout = int(os.environ.get("PYTEST_TIMEOUT", 600))
 
     start_methohd = "spawn"
     ctx = multiprocessing.get_context(start_methohd)

tests/models/wav2vec2/test_modeling_flax_wav2vec2.py

@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 import inspect
 import math
 import multiprocessing
-import os
 import traceback
 import unittest
 
@@ -637,7 +636,4 @@ class FlaxWav2Vec2ModelIntegrationTest(unittest.TestCase):
     @require_pyctcdecode
     @require_librosa
     def test_wav2vec2_with_lm_invalid_pool(self):
-        timeout = os.environ.get("PYTEST_TIMEOUT", 600)
-        run_test_in_subprocess(
-            test_case=self, target_func=_test_wav2vec2_with_lm_invalid_pool, inputs=None, timeout=timeout
-        )
+        run_test_in_subprocess(test_case=self, target_func=_test_wav2vec2_with_lm_invalid_pool, inputs=None)

tests/models/wav2vec2/test_modeling_tf_wav2vec2.py

@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ import glob
 import inspect
 import math
 import multiprocessing
-import os
 import traceback
 import unittest
 
@@ -682,7 +681,4 @@ class TFWav2Vec2ModelIntegrationTest(unittest.TestCase):
     @require_pyctcdecode
     @require_librosa
     def test_wav2vec2_with_lm_invalid_pool(self):
-        timeout = os.environ.get("PYTEST_TIMEOUT", 600)
-        run_test_in_subprocess(
-            test_case=self, target_func=_test_wav2vec2_with_lm_invalid_pool, inputs=None, timeout=timeout
-        )
+        run_test_in_subprocess(test_case=self, target_func=_test_wav2vec2_with_lm_invalid_pool, inputs=None)

tests/models/wav2vec2/test_modeling_wav2vec2.py

@@ -1713,10 +1713,7 @@ class Wav2Vec2ModelIntegrationTest(unittest.TestCase):
     @require_pyctcdecode
     @require_torchaudio
     def test_wav2vec2_with_lm_invalid_pool(self):
-        timeout = os.environ.get("PYTEST_TIMEOUT", 600)
-        run_test_in_subprocess(
-            test_case=self, target_func=_test_wav2vec2_with_lm_invalid_pool, inputs=None, timeout=timeout
-        )
+        run_test_in_subprocess(test_case=self, target_func=_test_wav2vec2_with_lm_invalid_pool, inputs=None)
 
     def test_inference_diarization(self):
         model = Wav2Vec2ForAudioFrameClassification.from_pretrained("anton-l/wav2vec2-base-superb-sd").to(torch_device)

tests/models/whisper/test_modeling_tf_whisper.py

@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 """ Testing suite for the TensorFlow Whisper model. """
 
 import inspect
-import os
 import tempfile
 import traceback
 import unittest
@@ -891,10 +890,7 @@ class TFWhisperModelIntegrationTests(unittest.TestCase):
 
     @slow
     def test_large_logits_librispeech(self):
-        timeout = os.environ.get("PYTEST_TIMEOUT", 600)
-        run_test_in_subprocess(
-            test_case=self, target_func=_test_large_logits_librispeech, inputs=None, timeout=timeout
-        )
+        run_test_in_subprocess(test_case=self, target_func=_test_large_logits_librispeech, inputs=None)
 
     @slow
     def test_tiny_en_generation(self):
@@ -959,22 +955,15 @@ class TFWhisperModelIntegrationTests(unittest.TestCase):
 
     @slow
     def test_large_generation(self):
-        timeout = os.environ.get("PYTEST_TIMEOUT", 600)
-        run_test_in_subprocess(test_case=self, target_func=_test_large_generation, inputs=None, timeout=timeout)
+        run_test_in_subprocess(test_case=self, target_func=_test_large_generation, inputs=None)
 
     @slow
     def test_large_generation_multilingual(self):
-        timeout = os.environ.get("PYTEST_TIMEOUT", 600)
-        run_test_in_subprocess(
-            test_case=self, target_func=_test_large_generation_multilingual, inputs=None, timeout=timeout
-        )
+        run_test_in_subprocess(test_case=self, target_func=_test_large_generation_multilingual, inputs=None)
 
     @slow
     def test_large_batched_generation(self):
-        timeout = os.environ.get("PYTEST_TIMEOUT", 600)
-        run_test_in_subprocess(
-            test_case=self, target_func=_test_large_batched_generation, inputs=None, timeout=timeout
-        )
+        run_test_in_subprocess(test_case=self, target_func=_test_large_batched_generation, inputs=None)
 
     @slow
     def test_tiny_en_batched_generation(self):