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  r85086 | r.david.murray | 2010-09-28 21:08:05 -0400 (Tue, 28 Sep 2010) | 4 lines

  #7110: have regrtest print test failures and tracebacks to stderr not stdout.

  Patch by Sandro Tosi.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/regrtest.py b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
index deb4229..9f038c4 100755
--- a/Lib/test/regrtest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
@@ -894,16 +894,16 @@
     except KeyboardInterrupt:
         raise
     except test_support.TestFailed, msg:
-        print "test", test, "failed --", msg
-        sys.stdout.flush()
+        print >>sys.stderr, "test", test, "failed --", msg
+        sys.stderr.flush()
         return FAILED, test_time
     except:
         type, value = sys.exc_info()[:2]
-        print "test", test, "crashed --", str(type) + ":", value
-        sys.stdout.flush()
+        print >>sys.stderr, "test", test, "crashed --", str(type) + ":", value
+        sys.stderr.flush()
         if verbose:
-            traceback.print_exc(file=sys.stdout)
-            sys.stdout.flush()
+            traceback.print_exc(file=sys.stderr)
+            sys.stderr.flush()
         return FAILED, test_time
     else:
         if refleak:
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 4cd8350..24c072c 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -791,6 +791,7 @@
 R Lindsay Todd
 Bennett Todd
 Matias Torchinsky
+Sandro Tosi
 Richard Townsend
 Laurence Tratt
 John Tromp
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 79ee4a2..6ca939a 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@
 
 - Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
 
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
+  tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
+
 
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