[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Close #14205: dict lookup raises a RuntimeError if the dict is modified during

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 05:38:05PM -0500, Yury Selivanov wrote:
> Actually, I too noticed that you've dropped few crasher tests.  I think
> we need to keep them, to make sure that future development will not 
> introduce the same vulnerabilities.  That's a common practice with
> unit-testing.

The term for this is "regression testing" -- when you fix a bug, you 
keep a test for that bug forever, to ensure that you never have a 
regression that re-introduces the bug.

-- 
Steven