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-rw-r--r--Lib/test/support/__init__.py5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/support/__init__.py b/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
index adebedd..a64ed56 100644
--- a/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
@@ -461,12 +461,11 @@ def _is_gui_available():
reason = "cannot run without OS X gui process"
# check on every platform whether tkinter can actually do anything
- # 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'):
+ if not reason:
try:
from tkinter import Tk
root = Tk()
+ root.update()
root.destroy()
except Exception as e:
err_string = str(e)