commit 18e165558b24d29e7e0ca501842b9236589b012a
author Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> Wed Feb 15 17:27:45 2006 +0000
committer Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> Wed Feb 15 17:27:45 2006 +0000
tree 841678b5dc1aff3aa48701fee33a6ba7be00a72b
parent 44829297348d9121a03fc7df2fac557b583cc7fa

Merge ssize_t branch.

Lib/test/string_tests.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/string_tests.py b/Lib/test/string_tests.py
index 60f5fdb..aab98c2 100644
--- a/Lib/test/string_tests.py
+++ b/Lib/test/string_tests.py
@@ -627,7 +627,9 @@
         self.checkequal('abcabcabc', 'abc', '__mul__', 3)
         self.checkraises(TypeError, 'abc', '__mul__')
         self.checkraises(TypeError, 'abc', '__mul__', '')
-        self.checkraises(OverflowError, 10000*'abc', '__mul__', 2000000000)
+        # XXX: on a 64-bit system, this doesn't raise an overflow error,
+        # but either raises a MemoryError, or succeeds (if you have 54TiB)
+        #self.checkraises(OverflowError, 10000*'abc', '__mul__', 2000000000)
 
     def test_join(self):
         # join now works with any sequence type