Issue #17919: select.poll.poll() again works with poll.POLLNVAL on AIX.

Lib/test/test_poll.py

@@ -161,10 +161,6 @@ class PollTests(unittest.TestCase):
 
         pollster = select.poll()
         # Issue 15989
-        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, pollster.register, 0,
-                          _testcapi.SHRT_MAX + 1)
-        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, pollster.register, 0,
-                          _testcapi.USHRT_MAX + 1)
         self.assertRaises(OverflowError, pollster.poll, _testcapi.INT_MAX + 1)
         self.assertRaises(OverflowError, pollster.poll, _testcapi.UINT_MAX + 1)
 

Misc/NEWS

@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #17919: select.poll.poll() again works with poll.POLLNVAL on AIX.
+
 - Issue #19063: if a Charset's body_encoding was set to None, the email
   package would generate a message claiming the Content-Transfer-Encoding
   was 7bit, and produce garbage output for the content.  This now works.

Modules/selectmodule.c

@@ -380,11 +380,10 @@ static PyObject *
 poll_register(pollObject *self, PyObject *args)
 {
     PyObject *o, *key, *value;
-    int fd;
-    short events = POLLIN | POLLPRI | POLLOUT;
+    int fd, events = POLLIN | POLLPRI | POLLOUT;
     int err;
 
-    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O|h:register", &o, &events)) {
+    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O|i:register", &o, &events)) {
         return NULL;
     }