number of tests, all because of the codecs/_multibytecodecs issue described
here (it's not a Py3K issue, just something Py3K discovers):
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/064051.html
Hye-Shik Chang promised to look for a fix, so no need to fix it here. The
tests that are expected to break are:
test_codecencodings_cn
test_codecencodings_hk
test_codecencodings_jp
test_codecencodings_kr
test_codecencodings_tw
test_codecs
test_multibytecodec
This merge fixes an actual test failure (test_weakref) in this branch,
though, so I believe merging is the right thing to do anyway.
and test_support.run_classtests() into run_unittest()
and use it wherever possible.
Also don't use "from test.test_support import ...", but
"from test import test_support" in a few spots.
From SF patch #662807.
rarely needed, but can sometimes be useful to release objects
referenced by the traceback held in sys.exc_info()[2]. (SF patch
#693195.) Thanks to Kevin Jacobs!
module. This increases code coverage of Python/sysmodule.c
from 68% to 77% (on Linux).
The script doesn't exercise the error branch that handles an evil
or lost sys.excepthook in Python/pythonrun.c::PyErr_PrintEx().
Also this script might not work on Jython in its current form.
From SF patch #662807.
Thomas Wouters
Walter Dörwald
Tim Peters
Michael W. Hudson
Guido van Rossum
Neal Norwitz