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  r85086 | r.david.murray | 2010-09-28 21:08:05 -0400 (Tue, 28 Sep 2010) | 4 lines

  #7110: have regrtest print test failures and tracebacks to stderr not stdout.

  Patch by Sandro Tosi.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/regrtest.py b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
index 5b1f4e2..5ee09d0 100755
--- a/Lib/test/regrtest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
@@ -659,16 +659,16 @@
     except KeyboardInterrupt:
         raise
     except support.TestFailed as msg:
-        print("test", test, "failed --", msg)
-        sys.stdout.flush()
+        print("test", test, "failed --", msg, file=sys.stderr)
+        sys.stderr.flush()
         return 0
     except:
         type, value = sys.exc_info()[:2]
-        print("test", test, "crashed --", str(type) + ":", value)
-        sys.stdout.flush()
+        print("test", test, "crashed --", str(type) + ":", value, file=sys.stderr)
+        sys.stderr.flush()
         if verbose or debug:
-            traceback.print_exc(file=sys.stdout)
-            sys.stdout.flush()
+            traceback.print_exc(file=sys.stderr)
+            sys.stderr.flush()
         return 0
     else:
         if refleak:
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 1606934..1108f90 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -784,6 +784,7 @@
 Frank J. Tobin
 R Lindsay Todd
 Bennett Todd
+Sandro Tosi
 Richard Townsend
 Laurence Tratt
 John Tromp
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 76ccf7a..fc3b9a0 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@
 
 - Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
 
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
+  tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
+
 
 What's New in Python 3.1.3?
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