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  r80875 | giampaolo.rodola | 2010-05-06 19:57:06 +0200 (gio, 06 mag 2010) | 1 line

  Fix asyncore issues 8573 and 8483: _strerror might throw ValueError; asyncore.__getattr__ cheap inheritance caused confusing error messages when accessing undefined class attributes; added an alias for __str__ which now is used as a fallback for __repr__
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_asyncore.py b/Lib/test/test_asyncore.py
index ce835aa..670ee43 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_asyncore.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_asyncore.py
@@ -301,6 +301,18 @@ class DispatcherTests(unittest.TestCase):
                     'warning: unhandled accept event']
         self.assertEquals(lines, expected)
 
+    def test_issue_8594(self):
+        d = asyncore.dispatcher(socket.socket())
+        # make sure the error message no longer refers to the socket
+        # object but the dispatcher instance instead
+        try:
+            d.foo
+        except AttributeError, err:
+            self.assertTrue('dispatcher instance' in str(err))
+        else:
+            self.fail("exception not raised")
+        # test cheap inheritance with the underlying socket
+        self.assertEqual(d.family, socket.AF_INET)
 
 
 class dispatcherwithsend_noread(asyncore.dispatcher_with_send):