From 6308d510e954ad1076b579d91e42874de6a0bcde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 19:31:25 +0000
Subject: More robust way of choosing a non-existant uid (faster, too).

---
 Lib/test/test_pwd.py | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pwd.py b/Lib/test/test_pwd.py
index 1c2208d..2fc8da8 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pwd.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pwd.py
@@ -59,10 +59,10 @@ except KeyError:
 else:
     print 'fakename', fakename, 'did not except pwd.getpwnam()'
 
-uids = byuids.keys()
-uids.sort()
-uids.reverse()
-fakeuid = uids[0] + 1
+# Choose a non-existant uid.
+fakeuid = 4127
+while byuids.has_key(fakeuid):
+    print 'fakeuid =', fakeuid
 
 try:
     pwd.getpwuid(fakeuid)
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