[issue7793] regrtest fails with "RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded" in some cases

[Florent Xicluna]

New submission from Florent Xicluna <laxyf at yahoo.fr>:

~ $ ./python -m test.regrtest -R 1:0: test_multibytecodec_support test_codecencodings_tw test_codecencodings_jp

test_multibytecodec_support
test_codecencodings_tw
test test_codecencodings_tw failed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./Lib/test/test_multibytecodec_support.py", line 88, in test_customreplace_encode
    "test.xmlcharnamereplace")[0], sout)
  File "./Lib/test/test_multibytecodec_support.py", line 74, in xmlcharnamereplace
    if ord(c) in codepoint2name:
  File "./Lib/test/test_multibytecodec_support.py", line 260, in ord
    return _ord(c)
  File "./Lib/test/test_multibytecodec_support.py", line 260, in ord
    return _ord(c)
  File "./Lib/test/test_multibytecodec_support.py", line 260, in ord
    return _ord(c)
(...)
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded

test_codecencodings_jp
test test_codecencodings_jp failed -- multiple errors occurred; run in verbose mode for details
1 test OK.
2 tests failed:
    test_codecencodings_jp test_codecencodings_tw

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components: Tests
messages: 98392
nosy: flox
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: test needed
status: open
title: regrtest fails with "RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded" in some cases
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7

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