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-rwxr-xr-xLib/test/regrtest.py15
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/regrtest.py b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
index 157420f..a544d67 100755
--- a/Lib/test/regrtest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
@@ -682,6 +682,10 @@ def runtest_inner(test, verbose, quiet,
refleak = False # True if the test leaked references.
try:
save_stdout = sys.stdout
+ # Save various things that tests may mess up so we can restore
+ # them afterward.
+ save_environ = dict(os.environ)
+ save_argv = sys.argv[:]
try:
if test.startswith('test.'):
abstest = test
@@ -702,6 +706,17 @@ def runtest_inner(test, verbose, quiet,
test_time = time.time() - start_time
finally:
sys.stdout = save_stdout
+ # Restore what we saved if needed, but also complain if the test
+ # changed it so that the test may eventually get fixed.
+ if not os.environ == save_environ:
+ if not quiet:
+ print("Warning: os.environ was modified by", test)
+ os.environ.clear()
+ os.environ.update(save_environ)
+ if not sys.argv == save_argv:
+ if not quiet:
+ print("Warning: argv was modified by", test)
+ sys.argv[:] = save_argv
except support.ResourceDenied as msg:
if not quiet:
print(test, "skipped --", msg)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 42c7454..3ff73ed 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -260,6 +260,9 @@ Documentation
Tests
-----
+- Issue #7058: Added save/restore for argv and os.environ to runtest_inner
+ in regrtest, with warnings if the called test modifies them.
+
- Issue #7042: Fix test_signal (test_itimer_virtual) failure on OS X 10.6.
- Fixed tests in importlib.test.source.test_abc_loader that were masking