os.popen2() test croaks on python 1.5.2, Solaris 2.6

[Michael Vanier]

Hi,

I just compiled python 1.5.2 on Solaris 2.6 using gcc (egcs-1.1).  I ran "make
test" and got this error:

% python
Python 1.5.2 (#3, May 11 1999, 13:39:27)  [GCC egcs-2.91.57 19980901 (egcs-1.1 re on sunos5
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> import popen2
>>> popen2._test()

testing popen2...
testing popen3...
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/home/mvanier/local/Solaris/lib/python1.5/popen2.py", line 95, in _test
    assert not _active
AssertionError

I don't actually use the popen2 module, but this looks like a bug.  Weirder
still, when I ran it from within IDLE it worked! Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mike


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Mike Vanier	mvanier at bbb.caltech.edu
Department of Computation and Neural Systems, Caltech 216-76
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