Note that on py3k we are actually looking at sys.stdout, not sys.__stdout__.
Merged revisions 75518 via svnmerge from
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r75518 | r.david.murray | 2009-10-19 12:01:28 -0400 (Mon, 19 Oct 2009) | 3 lines
Only run test_curses when sys.__stdout__ is a tty. This eliminates the
last false positive when running regrtest with -j.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_curses.py b/Lib/test/test_curses.py
index 2615ffb..9273ba8 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_curses.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_curses.py
@@ -275,6 +275,8 @@
curses.resetty()
def test_main():
+ if not sys.stdout.isatty():
+ raise unittest.SkipTest("sys.stdout is not a tty")
# testing setupterm() inside initscr/endwin
# causes terminal breakage
curses.setupterm(fd=sys.stdout.fileno())