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/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 872affe..c3cf9b5 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@
Tests
-----
+- Issue #6292: for the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
+ is run with the -OO flag. Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
+
- Issue #7712: test_support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is
now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory.
The original CWD is saved in `test_support.SAVEDCWD`.