Merged revisions 77788-77789 via svnmerge from
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  r77788 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-01-26 20:15:28 -0600 (Tue, 26 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  for UserDict to be compatible with abcs, it must subclass object
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  r77789 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-01-26 20:16:42 -0600 (Tue, 26 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  raise a clear TypeError when trying to register a non-class
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_abc.py b/Lib/test/test_abc.py
index 3e0955f..fa20173 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_abc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_abc.py
@@ -149,6 +149,11 @@
         self.assertRaises(RuntimeError, C.register, A)  # cycles not allowed
         C.register(B)  # ok
 
+    def test_register_non_class(self):
+        class A(object):
+            __metaclass__ = abc.ABCMeta
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, A.register, 4)
+
     def test_registration_transitiveness(self):
         class A:
             __metaclass__ = abc.ABCMeta