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  r87648 | alexander.belopolsky | 2011-01-02 15:48:22 -0500 (Sun, 02 Jan 2011) | 1 line

  Issue #8013: Fixed time.asctime segfault when OS's asctime fails
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  r87656 | alexander.belopolsky | 2011-01-02 17:16:10 -0500 (Sun, 02 Jan 2011) | 1 line

  Issue #8013: Fixed test
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_time.py b/Lib/test/test_time.py
index c991b50..0028f15 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_time.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_time.py
@@ -114,6 +114,16 @@
     def test_asctime(self):
         time.asctime(time.gmtime(self.t))
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, time.asctime, 0)
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, time.asctime, ())
+        # XXX: Posix compiant asctime should refuse to convert
+        # year > 9999, but Linux implementation does not.
+        # self.assertRaises(ValueError, time.asctime,
+        #                  (12345, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0))
+        # XXX: For now, just make sure we don't have a crash:
+        try:
+            time.asctime((12345, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0))
+        except ValueError:
+            pass
 
     @unittest.skipIf(not hasattr(time, "tzset"),
         "time module has no attribute tzset")