Issue 6292: for the moment at least, the test suite passes if run

with -OO.  Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.  Patch by
Brian Curtin, thanks to Matias Torchinsky for helping review and
improve the patch.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_build_py.py b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_build_py.py
index 472591d..3c8bc41 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_build_py.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_build_py.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ class BuildPyTestCase(support.TempdirManager,
                       support.LoggingSilencer,
                       unittest.TestCase):
 
-    def test_package_data(self):
+    def _setup_package_data(self):
         sources = self.mkdtemp()
         f = open(os.path.join(sources, "__init__.py"), "w")
         f.write("# Pretend this is a package.")
@@ -52,10 +52,19 @@ class BuildPyTestCase(support.TempdirManager,
         self.assertEqual(len(cmd.get_outputs()), 3)
         pkgdest = os.path.join(destination, "pkg")
         files = os.listdir(pkgdest)
+        return files
+
+    def test_package_data(self):
+        files = self._setup_package_data()
         self.assertTrue("__init__.py" in files)
-        self.assertTrue("__init__.pyc" in files)
         self.assertTrue("README.txt" in files)
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(sys.flags.optimize >= 2,
+                     "pyc files are not written with -O2 and above")
+    def test_package_data_pyc(self):
+        files = self._setup_package_data()
+        self.assertTrue("__init__.pyc" in files)
+
     def test_empty_package_dir (self):
         # See SF 1668596/1720897.
         cwd = os.getcwd()