[New-bugs-announce] [issue45745] ./python -m test --help output for refleaks seems wrong

[Skip Montanaro]

New submission from Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro at gmail.com>:

Just preparing to make a refleaks test run, so I ran:

./python -m test --help

The output related to refleaks seemed suspicious:

...
Special runs:
  -l, --findleaks       deprecated alias to --fail-env-changed
...
  --fail-env-changed    if a test file alters the environment, mark the test as failed

It's not obvious that "--fail-env-changed" has anything to do with "--findleaks". Does the -l/--findleaks message need to be corrected?

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components: Build
messages: 405916
nosy: skip.montanaro
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: ./python -m test --help output for refleaks seems wrong
versions: Python 3.11

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