[Python-Dev] Re: Newish test failures

[Fredrik Lundh]

>  File "C:\Code\python\lib\test\test_csv.py", line 58, in _test_default_attrs
>    self.assertRaises(TypeError, delattr, obj.dialect, 'quoting')
>  File "C:\Code\python\lib\unittest.py", line 320, in failUnlessRaises
>    callableObj(*args, **kwargs)
> AttributeError: attribute 'quoting' of '_csv.Dialect' objects is not writable

looks like someone didn't run the test suite...

From: bwarsaw at users.sourceforge.net
Subject: python/dist/src/Objects descrobject.c,2.38,2.39

     ...

    As per discussion on python-dev, descriptors defined in C with a NULL setter
    now raise AttributeError instead of TypeError, for consistency with their
    pure-Python equivalent.

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