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  r74040 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2009-07-17 15:20:46 +0900 | 1 line

  Issue #6415: Fixed warnings.warn sagfault on bad formatted string.
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  r74042 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2009-07-17 15:26:54 +0900 | 1 line

  NEWS about r74040.
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_warnings.py b/Lib/test/test_warnings.py
index 0910055..7393d25 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_warnings.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_warnings.py
@@ -338,6 +338,20 @@ class WarnTests(unittest.TestCase):
                             self.module.warn_explicit,
                             None, Warning, None, 1, registry=42)
 
+    def test_bad_str(self):
+        # issue 6415
+        # Warnings instance with a bad format string for __str__ should not
+        # trigger a bus error.
+        class BadStrWarning(Warning):
+            """Warning with a bad format string for __str__."""
+            def __str__(self):
+                return ("A bad formatted string %(err)" %
+                        {"err" : "there is no %(err)s"})
+
+        with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
+            self.module.warn(BadStrWarning())
+
+
 class CWarnTests(BaseTest, WarnTests):
     module = c_warnings