Merged revisions 79464,79471,79623,79626,79630,79632,79643,79648-79649,79679,79685,79711,79761,79774,79777,79792-79794,79877,79898-79900 via svnmerge from

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r79464 | michael.foord | 2010-03-27 07:55:19 -0500 (Sat, 27 Mar 2010) | 1 line

  A fix for running unittest tests on platforms without the audioop module (e.g. jython and IronPython)
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  r79471 | michael.foord | 2010-03-27 14:10:11 -0500 (Sat, 27 Mar 2010) | 4 lines

  Addition of delta keyword argument to unittest.TestCase.assertAlmostEquals and assertNotAlmostEquals

  This allows the comparison of objects by specifying a maximum difference; this includes the comparing of non-numeric objects that don't support rounding.
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  r79623 | michael.foord | 2010-04-02 16:42:47 -0500 (Fri, 02 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Addition of -b command line option to unittest for buffering stdout and stderr during test runs.
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  r79626 | michael.foord | 2010-04-02 17:08:29 -0500 (Fri, 02 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  TestResult stores original sys.stdout and tests no longer use sys.__stdout__ (etc) in tests for unittest -b command line option
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  r79630 | michael.foord | 2010-04-02 17:30:56 -0500 (Fri, 02 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  unittest tests no longer replace the sys.stdout put in place by regrtest
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  r79632 | michael.foord | 2010-04-02 17:55:59 -0500 (Fri, 02 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Issue #8038: Addition of unittest.TestCase.assertNotRegexpMatches
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  r79643 | michael.foord | 2010-04-02 20:15:21 -0500 (Fri, 02 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Support dotted module names for test discovery paths in unittest. Issue 8038.
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  r79648 | michael.foord | 2010-04-02 21:21:39 -0500 (Fri, 02 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Cross platform unittest.TestResult newline handling when buffering stdout / stderr.
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  r79649 | michael.foord | 2010-04-02 21:33:55 -0500 (Fri, 02 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Another attempt at a fix for unittest.test.test_result for windows line endings
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  r79679 | michael.foord | 2010-04-03 09:52:18 -0500 (Sat, 03 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Adding -b command line option to the unittest usage message.
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  r79685 | michael.foord | 2010-04-03 10:20:00 -0500 (Sat, 03 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Minor tweak to unittest command line usage message
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  r79711 | michael.foord | 2010-04-03 12:03:11 -0500 (Sat, 03 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Documenting new features in unittest
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  r79761 | michael.foord | 2010-04-04 17:41:54 -0500 (Sun, 04 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  unittest documentation formatting changes
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  r79774 | michael.foord | 2010-04-04 18:28:44 -0500 (Sun, 04 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Adding documentation for new unittest.main() parameters
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  r79777 | michael.foord | 2010-04-04 19:39:50 -0500 (Sun, 04 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Document signal handling functions in unittest.rst
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  r79792 | michael.foord | 2010-04-05 05:26:26 -0500 (Mon, 05 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Documentation fixes for unittest
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  r79793 | michael.foord | 2010-04-05 05:28:27 -0500 (Mon, 05 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Furterh documentation fix for unittest.rst
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  r79794 | michael.foord | 2010-04-05 05:30:14 -0500 (Mon, 05 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Further documentation fix for unittest.rst
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  r79877 | michael.foord | 2010-04-06 18:18:16 -0500 (Tue, 06 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Fix module directory finding logic for dotted paths in unittest test discovery.
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  r79898 | michael.foord | 2010-04-07 18:04:22 -0500 (Wed, 07 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  unittest.result.TestResult does not create its buffers until they're used. It uses StringIO not cStringIO. Issue 8333.
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  r79899 | michael.foord | 2010-04-07 19:04:24 -0500 (Wed, 07 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Switch regrtest to use StringIO instead of cStringIO for test_multiprocessing on Windows. Issue 8333.
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  r79900 | michael.foord | 2010-04-07 23:33:20 -0500 (Wed, 07 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Correction of unittest documentation typos and omissions
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_argparse.py b/Lib/test/test_argparse.py
index 85513a5..f13c622 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_argparse.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_argparse.py
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ import argparse
 from io import StringIO
 
 from test import support
+class StdIOBuffer(StringIO):
+    pass
 
 class TestCase(unittest.TestCase):
 
@@ -25,6 +27,7 @@ class TestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         super(TestCase, self).assertEqual(obj1, obj2)
 
 
+
 class TempDirMixin(object):
 
     def setUp(self):
@@ -81,15 +84,15 @@ def stderr_to_parser_error(parse_args, *args, **kwargs):
     # if this is being called recursively and stderr or stdout is already being
     # redirected, simply call the function and let the enclosing function
     # catch the exception
-    if isinstance(sys.stderr, StringIO) or isinstance(sys.stdout, StringIO):
+    if isinstance(sys.stderr, StdIOBuffer) or isinstance(sys.stdout, StdIOBuffer):
         return parse_args(*args, **kwargs)
 
     # if this is not being called recursively, redirect stderr and
     # use it as the ArgumentParserError message
     old_stdout = sys.stdout
     old_stderr = sys.stderr
-    sys.stdout = StringIO()
-    sys.stderr = StringIO()
+    sys.stdout = StdIOBuffer()
+    sys.stderr = StdIOBuffer()
     try:
         try:
             result = parse_args(*args, **kwargs)
@@ -2634,7 +2637,7 @@ class TestHelpFormattingMetaclass(type):
                 parser = self._get_parser(tester)
                 print_ = getattr(parser, 'print_%s' % self.func_suffix)
                 old_stream = getattr(sys, self.std_name)
-                setattr(sys, self.std_name, StringIO())
+                setattr(sys, self.std_name, StdIOBuffer())
                 try:
                     print_()
                     parser_text = getattr(sys, self.std_name).getvalue()
@@ -2645,7 +2648,7 @@ class TestHelpFormattingMetaclass(type):
             def test_print_file(self, tester):
                 parser = self._get_parser(tester)
                 print_ = getattr(parser, 'print_%s' % self.func_suffix)
-                sfile = StringIO()
+                sfile = StdIOBuffer()
                 print_(sfile)
                 parser_text = sfile.getvalue()
                 self._test(tester, parser_text)