Author: georg.brandl Date: Wed Apr 1 02:04:33 2009 New Revision: 70933 Log: Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled. Modified: python/trunk/Lib/test/test_sys.py python/trunk/Misc/NEWS Modified: python/trunk/Lib/test/test_sys.py ============================================================================== --- python/trunk/Lib/test/test_sys.py (original) +++ python/trunk/Lib/test/test_sys.py Wed Apr 1 02:04:33 2009 @@ -221,6 +221,11 @@ sys.setdlopenflags(oldflags) def test_refcount(self): + # n here must be a global in order for this test to pass while + # tracing with a python function. Tracing calls PyFrame_FastToLocals + # which will add a copy of any locals to the frame object, causing + # the reference count to increase by 2 instead of 1. + global n self.assertRaises(TypeError, sys.getrefcount) c = sys.getrefcount(None) n = None Modified: python/trunk/Misc/NEWS ============================================================================== --- python/trunk/Misc/NEWS (original) +++ python/trunk/Misc/NEWS Wed Apr 1 02:04:33 2009 @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -+++++++++++ Python News ++++++++++++ +Python News +++++++++++ (editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.) @@ -715,6 +716,8 @@ Tests ----- +- Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled. + - regrtest no longer treats ImportError as equivalent to SkipTest. Imports that should cause a test to be skipped are now done using import_module from test support, which does the conversion.