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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/test/test_exceptions.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/test_exceptions.py | 15 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py b/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py index 83e680f81a8..c157122b5b0 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py @@ -85,15 +85,16 @@ except NameError: pass r(OverflowError) # XXX -# Obscure: this test relies on int+int raising OverflowError if the -# ints are big enough. But ints no longer do that by default. This -# test will have to go away someday. For now, we can convert the -# transitional OverflowWarning into an error. +# Obscure: in 2.2 and 2.3, this test relied on changing OverflowWarning +# into an error, in order to trigger OverflowError. In 2.4, OverflowWarning +# should no longer be generated, so the focus of the test shifts to showing +# that OverflowError *isn't* generated. OverflowWarning should be gone +# in Python 2.5, and then the filterwarnings() call, and this comment, +# should go away. warnings.filterwarnings("error", "", OverflowWarning, __name__) x = 1 -try: - while 1: x = x+x -except OverflowError: pass +for dummy in range(128): + x += x # this simply shouldn't blow up r(RuntimeError) print '(not used any more?)' |