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  r68610 | kristjan.jonsson | 2009-01-15 03:09:13 -0600 (Thu, 15 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Fix recently introduced test cases.
  For datetime, gentoo didn't seem to mind the %e format for strftime.  So, we just excercise those instead making sure that we don't crash.
  For test_os, two cases were incorrect.
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  r68621 | kristjan.jonsson | 2009-01-15 16:40:03 -0600 (Thu, 15 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Fix two test cases in test_os.  ftruncate raises IOError unlike all the others which raise OSError.  And close() on some platforms doesn't complain when given an invalid file descriptor.
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  r68622 | kristjan.jonsson | 2009-01-15 16:46:26 -0600 (Thu, 15 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Make all the invalid fd tests for os subject to the function being available.
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  r68649 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-16 22:39:05 -0600 (Fri, 16 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  trying to find some fpathconf() settings that all unixs support...
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_datetime.py b/Lib/test/test_datetime.py
index 89fa5c8..24ec895 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_datetime.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_datetime.py
@@ -857,9 +857,18 @@
         self.assertEqual(t.strftime("'%z' '%Z'"), "'' ''")
 
         #make sure that invalid format specifiers are handled correctly
-        self.assertRaises(ValueError, t.strftime, "%e")
-        self.assertRaises(ValueError, t.strftime, "%")
-        self.assertRaises(ValueError, t.strftime, "%#")
+        #self.assertRaises(ValueError, t.strftime, "%e")
+        #self.assertRaises(ValueError, t.strftime, "%")
+        #self.assertRaises(ValueError, t.strftime, "%#")
+
+        #oh well, some systems just ignore those invalid ones.
+        #at least, excercise them to make sure that no crashes
+        #are generated
+        for f in ["%e", "%", "%#"]:
+            try:
+                t.strftime(f)
+            except ValueError:
+                pass
 
         #check that this standard extension works
         t.strftime("%f")