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authorEzio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>2010-02-18 09:37:05 (GMT)
committerEzio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>2010-02-18 09:37:05 (GMT)
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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r78136 | ezio.melotti | 2010-02-10 23:40:33 +0200 (Wed, 10 Feb 2010) | 1 line #7712: add a temp_cwd context manager to test_support and use it in regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory, saving the original CWD in test_support.SAVEDCWD. Thanks to Florent Xicluna who helped with the patch. ........
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Tests
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+- Issue #7712: test.support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is
+ now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory.
+ The original CWD is saved in `support.SAVEDCWD`.
+ Thanks to Florent Xicluna who helped with the patch.
+
- Issue #7924: Fix an intermittent 'XXX undetected error' failure in
test_capi (only seen so far on platforms where the curses module
wasn't built), due to an uncleared exception.