From 7f53a5027d9e290dc288ed2d931ea4c383c416af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Victor Stinner Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 22:00:25 +0200 Subject: Issue #12459: time.sleep() now raises a ValueError if the sleep length is negative, instead of an infinite sleep on Windows or raising an IOError on Linux for example, to have the same behaviour on all platforms. --- Lib/test/test_time.py | 2 ++ Misc/NEWS | 4 ++++ Modules/timemodule.c | 5 +++++ 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/Lib/test/test_time.py b/Lib/test/test_time.py index 9d7dbc8..94de098 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_time.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_time.py @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ class TimeTestCase(unittest.TestCase): int(self.t)) def test_sleep(self): + self.assertRaises(ValueError, time.sleep, -2) + self.assertRaises(ValueError, time.sleep, -1) time.sleep(1.2) def test_strftime(self): diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 4f41fb1..b96ca50 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -219,6 +219,10 @@ Core and Builtins Library ------- +- Issue #12459: time.sleep() now raises a ValueError if the sleep length is + negative, instead of an infinite sleep on Windows or raising an IOError on + Linux for example, to have the same behaviour on all platforms. + - Issue #12451: pydoc: html_getfile() now uses tokenize.open() to support Python scripts using a encoding different than UTF-8 (read the coding cookie of the script). diff --git a/Modules/timemodule.c b/Modules/timemodule.c index 636d4ad..4dc82a0 100644 --- a/Modules/timemodule.c +++ b/Modules/timemodule.c @@ -141,6 +141,11 @@ time_sleep(PyObject *self, PyObject *args) double secs; if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "d:sleep", &secs)) return NULL; + if (secs < 0) { + PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, + "sleep length must be non-negative"); + return NULL; + } if (floatsleep(secs) != 0) return NULL; Py_INCREF(Py_None); -- cgit v0.12