[Python-Dev] RE: test_sort.py failure

[Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy)]

Tim Peters wrote:

> I think I have a fix for this, and will check it in when the tests
> finish. 
> 
> However, it doesn't fail on my box -- MS is *always* moving the memory
> around.  So I hope that, before someone rebuilds with the checkin,
> they temporarily fiddle the test on their box so it fails more often.
> I expect that setting the list size to 3 instead of 50 will do that.
> If you set it to 1, the test will never fail.

Might it be worthwhile trying to capture *one* starting point that
provokes this behaviour consistently on some machines and include that
as an additional specific test case?

I guess it would depend on how consistently it could be provoked.

Tim Delaney