commit 8153b7a57aeae8f40c09b729b8d6b5781d91aece
author Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> Thu Jun 23 01:02:50 2011 +0200
committer Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> Thu Jun 23 01:02:50 2011 +0200
tree b16a963dc79337b3ef87adebddbfed4cbeb8b980
parent 4527365ee4241246e437031b23dc62eb10b589e4
parent 62d511809d3ccde1b8555cf27f12f31f74c10da6

(merge 3.2) Issue #12383: skip test_empty_env() of subprocess on Windows

Cannot test an empty environment on Windows: Windows requires at least the
SYSTEMROOT environment variable to start Python.

Lib/test/test_subprocess.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
index 00bd579..6e31fe7 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
@@ -390,6 +390,10 @@
             stdout, stderr = p.communicate()
             self.assertEqual(stdout, b"orange")
 
+    # Windows requires at least the SYSTEMROOT environment variable to start
+    # Python
+    @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform == 'win32',
+                     'cannot test an empty env on Windows')
     @unittest.skipIf(sysconfig.get_config_var('Py_ENABLE_SHARED') is not None,
                      'the python library cannot be loaded '
                      'with an empty environment')