Issue 6292: for the moment at least, the test suite passes if run
with -OO.  Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.  Patch by
Brian Curtin, thanks to Matias Torchinsky for helping review and
improve the patch.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_functools.py b/Lib/test/test_functools.py
index b88e9b7..2549e05 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_functools.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_functools.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import functools
+import sys
 import unittest
 from test import test_support
 from weakref import proxy
@@ -179,7 +180,7 @@
             for key in wrapped_attr:
                 self.assertTrue(wrapped_attr[key] is wrapper_attr[key])
 
-    def test_default_update(self):
+    def _default_update(self):
         def f():
             """This is a test"""
             pass
@@ -187,11 +188,20 @@
         def wrapper():
             pass
         functools.update_wrapper(wrapper, f)
+        return wrapper, f
+
+    def test_default_update(self):
+        wrapper, f = self._default_update()
         self.check_wrapper(wrapper, f)
         self.assertEqual(wrapper.__name__, 'f')
-        self.assertEqual(wrapper.__doc__, 'This is a test')
         self.assertEqual(wrapper.attr, 'This is also a test')
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(sys.flags.optimize >= 2,
+                     "Docstrings are omitted with -O2 and above")
+    def test_default_update_doc(self):
+        wrapper, f = self._default_update()
+        self.assertEqual(wrapper.__doc__, 'This is a test')
+
     def test_no_update(self):
         def f():
             """This is a test"""
@@ -232,7 +242,7 @@
 
 class TestWraps(TestUpdateWrapper):
 
-    def test_default_update(self):
+    def _default_update(self):
         def f():
             """This is a test"""
             pass
@@ -241,10 +251,19 @@
         def wrapper():
             pass
         self.check_wrapper(wrapper, f)
+        return wrapper
+
+    def test_default_update(self):
+        wrapper = self._default_update()
         self.assertEqual(wrapper.__name__, 'f')
-        self.assertEqual(wrapper.__doc__, 'This is a test')
         self.assertEqual(wrapper.attr, 'This is also a test')
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(not sys.flags.optimize <= 1,
+                     "Docstrings are omitted with -O2 and above")
+    def test_default_update_doc(self):
+        wrapper = self._default_update()
+        self.assertEqual(wrapper.__doc__, 'This is a test')
+
     def test_no_update(self):
         def f():
             """This is a test"""
@@ -323,7 +342,6 @@
 
 
 def test_main(verbose=None):
-    import sys
     test_classes = (
         TestPartial,
         TestPartialSubclass,