[Python-checkins] r46303 - python/branches/sreifschneider-newnewexcept/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py

[Tim Peters]

> Author: richard.jones
> Date: Fri May 26 14:23:23 2006
> New Revision: 46303
>
> Modified:
>    python/branches/sreifschneider-newnewexcept/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py
> Log:
> OverflowWarning has gone away
>
> Modified: python/branches/sreifschneider-newnewexcept/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py
> ==============================================================================
> --- python/branches/sreifschneider-newnewexcept/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py     (original)
> +++ python/branches/sreifschneider-newnewexcept/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py     Fri May 26 14:23:23 2006
> @@ -81,17 +81,6 @@
>  except NameError: pass
>
>  r(OverflowError)
> -# XXX
> -# Obscure:  in 2.2 and 2.3, this test relied on changing OverflowWarning
> -# into an error, in order to trigger OverflowError.  In 2.4, OverflowWarning
> -# should no longer be generated, so the focus of the test shifts to showing
> -# that OverflowError *isn't* generated.  OverflowWarning should be gone
> -# in Python 2.5, and then the filterwarnings() call, and this comment,
> -# should go away.
> -warnings.filterwarnings("error", "", OverflowWarning, __name__)
> -x = 1
> -for dummy in range(128):
> -    x += x  # this simply shouldn't blow up

The code after warnings.filterwarnings should be restored:  we're
still testing that OverflowError _isn't_ raised.