[issue11572] bring Lib/copy.py to 100% coverage

[Benjamin Peterson]

Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> added the comment:

2011/3/16 Nick Coghlan <report at bugs.python.org>:
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> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> added the comment:
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> Alexander: the coverage problem in this case has to do with it incorrectly handling an "else:" clause on a loop (it doesn't adjust the expected target for an empty sequence to be the body of the else clause)
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> Benjamin: the pragma question is probably worth bringing up on python-dev. In the long run, it would be best to merge coverage data from the test suites of all the major implementations and platforms, but in the meantime we need a way to mark when modules are "done" from the point of view of the CPython test suite.

There's really no precedent for it.

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