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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/test_file.py | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_file.py b/Lib/test/test_file.py index cb1bdce..931e33d 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_file.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_file.py @@ -46,14 +46,17 @@ else: print "writelines accepted sequence of non-string objects" f.close() -# verify that we get a sensible error message for bad made argument +# verify that we get a sensible error message for bad mode argument bad_mode = "qwerty" try: open(TESTFN, bad_mode) except IOError, msg: - s = str(msg) - if s.find(TESTFN) != -1 or s.find(bad_mode) == -1: - print "bad error message for invalid mode: %s" % s + if msg[0] != 0: + s = str(msg) + if s.find(TESTFN) != -1 or s.find(bad_mode) == -1: + print "bad error message for invalid mode: %s" % s + # if msg[0] == 0, we're probably on Windows where there may be + # no obvious way to discover why open() failed. else: print "no error for invalid mode: %s" % bad_mode |