On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:13, antoine.pitrou <python-checkins@python.org>wrote:

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/1d7472b015f0 changeset: 75296:1d7472b015f0 user: Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> date: Sun Feb 26 18:09:50 2012 +0100 summary: Issue #14080: fix sporadic test_imp failure. Patch by Stefan Krah.

files: Lib/test/test_imp.py | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_imp.py b/Lib/test/test_imp.py --- a/Lib/test/test_imp.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_imp.py @@ -325,6 +325,7 @@ self.addCleanup(cleanup) # Touch the __init__.py file. support.create_empty_file('pep3147/__init__.py') + importlib.invalidate_caches() expected___file__ = os.sep.join(('.', 'pep3147', '__init__.py')) m = __import__('pep3147') self.assertEqual(m.__file__, expected___file__, (m.__file__, m.__path__))

Should that just go into support.create_empty_file()? Since it's just a performance issue I don't see it causing unexpected test failures and it might help with any future issues.