Issue 27372: Stop test_idle from changing locale, so test passes.

In 3.6, the warning is now called an error, making it harder to ignore.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_idle.py b/Lib/test/test_idle.py
index 9d52394..ad88e24 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_idle.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_idle.py
@@ -1,18 +1,21 @@
 import unittest
 from test.support import import_module
 
-# Skip test if _thread or _tkinter wasn't built or idlelib was deleted.
+# Skip test if _thread or _tkinter wasn't built, or idlelib is missing,
+# or if tcl/tk version before 8.5, which is needed for ttk widgets.
+
 import_module('threading')  # imported by PyShell, imports _thread
 tk = import_module('tkinter')  # imports _tkinter
 if tk.TkVersion < 8.5:
     raise unittest.SkipTest("IDLE requires tk 8.5 or later.")
 tk.NoDefaultRoot()
-idletest = import_module('idlelib.idle_test')
+idlelib = import_module('idlelib')
+idlelib.testing = True  # Avoid locale-changed test error
 
-# Without test_main present, regrtest.runtest_inner (line1219) calls
-# unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromModule(this_module) which calls
-# load_tests() if it finds it. (Unittest.main does the same.)
-load_tests = idletest.load_tests
+# Without test_main present, test.libregrtest.runtest.runtest_inner
+# calls (line 173) unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromModule(module)
+# which calls load_tests() if it finds it. (Unittest.main does the same.)
+from idlelib.idle_test import load_tests
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main(verbosity=2, exit=False)