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  r68033 | tarek.ziade | 2008-12-29 23:23:53 +0100 (Mon, 29 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fixed #4646 : distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
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1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_dist.py b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_dist.py
index f1b11c1..8e7ef5d 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_dist.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_dist.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import os
 import io
 import sys
 import unittest
+import warnings
 
 from test.support import TESTFN
 
@@ -96,6 +97,29 @@ class DistributionTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
             os.unlink(TESTFN)
 
 
+    def test_empty_options(self):
+        # an empty options dictionary should not stay in the
+        # list of attributes
+        klass = distutils.dist.Distribution
+
+        # catching warnings
+        warns = []
+        def _warn(msg):
+            warns.append(msg)
+
+        old_warn = warnings.warn
+        warnings.warn = _warn
+        try:
+            dist = klass(attrs={'author': 'xxx',
+                                'name': 'xxx',
+                                'version': 'xxx',
+                                'url': 'xxxx',
+                                'options': {}})
+        finally:
+            warnings.warn = old_warn
+
+        self.assertEquals(len(warns), 0)
+
 class MetadataTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def test_simple_metadata(self):