Issue #10992: make tests pass when run under coverage.

Various tests fail when run under coverage. A primary culprit is refcount tests
which fail as the counts are thrown off by the coverage code. A new decorator
-- test.support.refcount_test -- is used to decorate tests which test refcounts
and to skip them when running under coverage. Other tests simply fail because
of changes in the system (e.g., __local__ suddenly appearing).

Thanks to Kristian Vlaardingerbroek for helping to diagnose the test failures.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_genexps.py b/Lib/test/test_genexps.py
index 1f46af1..413043c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_genexps.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_genexps.py
@@ -257,11 +257,15 @@ Verify that genexps are weakly referencable
 
 """
 
+import sys
 
-__test__ = {'doctests' : doctests}
+# Trace function can throw off the tuple reuse test.
+if hasattr(sys, 'gettrace') and sys.gettrace():
+    __test__ = {}
+else:
+    __test__ = {'doctests' : doctests}
 
 def test_main(verbose=None):
-    import sys
     from test import support
     from test import test_genexps
     support.run_doctest(test_genexps, verbose)