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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/support/__init__.py | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/support/__init__.py b/Lib/test/support/__init__.py index d26281a..40aab96 100644 --- a/Lib/test/support/__init__.py +++ b/Lib/test/support/__init__.py @@ -434,7 +434,9 @@ def _is_gui_available(): reason = "cannot run without OS X gui process" # check on every platform whether tkinter can actually do anything - if not reason: + # but skip the test on OS X because it can cause segfaults in Cocoa Tk + # when running regrtest with the -j option (multiple threads/subprocesses) + if (not reason) and (sys.platform != 'darwin'): try: from tkinter import Tk root = Tk() |