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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2012-08-11 08:59:23 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2012-08-11 08:59:23 (GMT)
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Closes #15620: check for presence of readline.clear_history(), which is apparently missing on some readline versions, before calling it in the test.
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib')
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_readline.py4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_readline.py b/Lib/test/test_readline.py
index 5483dd3..fe74939 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_readline.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_readline.py
@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ class TestHistoryManipulation (unittest.TestCase):
"The history update test cannot be run because the "
"clear_history method is not available.")
def testHistoryUpdates(self):
- readline.clear_history()
+ # Some GNU versions of readline do not support clear_history
+ if hasattr('readline', 'clear_history'):
+ readline.clear_history()
readline.add_history("first line")
readline.add_history("second line")