Make mktime test more robust.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_time.py b/Lib/test/test_time.py
index d649232..574a867 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_time.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_time.py
@@ -348,9 +348,13 @@
except (OverflowError, ValueError):
pass
self.assertEqual(time.mktime(tt), t)
- # Hopefully year = -1 is enough to make OS mktime fail
- self.assertRaises(OverflowError, time.mktime,
- (-1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, -1, -1, -1))
+ # It may not be possible to reliably make mktime return error
+ # on all platfom. This will make sure that no other exception
+ # than OverflowError is raised for an extreme value.
+ try:
+ time.mktime((-1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, -1, -1, -1))
+ except OverflowError:
+ pass
class TestAsctimeAccept2dYear(_TestAsctimeYear, _Test2dYear):
pass