bpo-18533: Avoid RuntimeError from repr() of recursive dictview (#4823) (#5357)
(cherry picked from commit d7773d92bd11640a8c950d6c36a9cef1cee36f96)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_dictviews.py b/Lib/test/test_dictviews.py
index b585bdd..1edeec5 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_dictviews.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_dictviews.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
import copy
import pickle
+import sys
import unittest
import collections
from test import test_support
@@ -169,6 +170,20 @@
def test_recursive_repr(self):
d = {}
d[42] = d.viewvalues()
+ r = repr(d)
+ # Cannot perform a stronger test, as the contents of the repr
+ # are implementation-dependent. All we can say is that we
+ # want a str result, not an exception of any sort.
+ self.assertIsInstance(r, str)
+ d[42] = d.viewitems()
+ r = repr(d)
+ # Again.
+ self.assertIsInstance(r, str)
+
+ def test_deeply_nested_repr(self):
+ d = {}
+ for i in range(sys.getrecursionlimit() + 100):
+ d = {42: d.viewvalues()}
self.assertRaises(RuntimeError, repr, d)
def test_abc_registry(self):