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r66235 | antoine.pitrou | 2008-09-06 00:04:54 +0200 (sam., 06 sept. 2008) | 6 lines
#3601: test_unicode.test_raiseMemError fails in UCS4
Reviewed by Benjamin Peterson on IRC.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
index f82a642..d8c4778 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
@@ -1160,7 +1160,10 @@
# when a string allocation fails with a MemoryError.
# This used to crash the interpreter,
# or leak references when the number was smaller.
- alloc = lambda: "a" * (sys.maxsize - 100)
+ charwidth = 4 if sys.maxunicode >= 0x10000 else 2
+ # Note: sys.maxsize is half of the actual max allocation because of
+ # the signedness of Py_ssize_t.
+ alloc = lambda: "a" * (sys.maxsize // charwidth * 2)
self.assertRaises(MemoryError, alloc)
self.assertRaises(MemoryError, alloc)