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  r57227 | facundo.batista | 2007-08-20 17:16:21 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 5 lines


  Catch ProtocolError exceptions and include the header information in
  test output (to make it easier to debug test failures caused by
  problems in the server). [GSoC - Alan McIntyre]
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  r57229 | mark.hammond | 2007-08-20 18:04:47 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 5 lines

  [ 1761786 ] distutils.util.get_platform() return value on 64bit Windows
  As discussed on distutils-sig: Allows the generated installer name on
  64bit Windows platforms to be different than the name generated for
  32bit Windows platforms.
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  r57230 | mark.hammond | 2007-08-20 18:05:16 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 5 lines

  [ 1761786 ] distutils.util.get_platform() return value on 64bit Windows
  As discussed on distutils-sig: Allows the generated installer name on
  64bit Windows platforms to be different than the name generated for
  32bit Windows platforms.
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  r57253 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:01:18 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Demand version 2.5.1 since 2.5 has a bug with codecs.open context managers.
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  r57254 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:03:43 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Revert accidental checkins from last commit.
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  r57255 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:07:08 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1777160: mention explicitly that e.g. -1**2 is -1.
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  r57256 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:12:19 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 3 lines

  Bug #1777168: replace operator names "opa"... with "op1"... and mark everything up as literal,
  to enhance readability.
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  r57259 | facundo.batista | 2007-08-21 09:57:18 -0700 (Tue, 21 Aug 2007) | 8 lines


  Added test for behavior of operations on an unconnected SMTP object,
  and tests for NOOP, RSET, and VRFY. Corrected typo in a comment for
  testNonnumericPort. Added a check for constructing SMTP objects when
  non-numeric ports are included in the host name. Derived a server from
  SMTPServer to test various ESMTP/SMTP capabilities. Check that a
  second HELO to DebuggingServer returns an error. [GSoC - Alan McIntyre]
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  r57279 | skip.montanaro | 2007-08-22 12:02:16 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Note that BeOS is unsupported as of Python 2.6.
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  r57280 | skip.montanaro | 2007-08-22 12:05:21 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 1 line

  whoops - need to check in configure as well
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  r57284 | alex.martelli | 2007-08-22 14:14:17 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 5 lines

  Fix compile.c so that it records 0.0 and -0.0 as separate constants in a code
  object's co_consts tuple; add a test to show that the previous behavior (where
  these two constants were "collapsed" into one) causes serious malfunctioning.
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  r57286 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-08-22 14:32:34 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 3 lines

  stop leaving log.0000001 __db.00* and xxx.db turds in developer
  sandboxes when bsddb3 tests are run.
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  r57301 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2007-08-22 16:14:27 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 3 lines

  When setup.py fails to find the necessary bits to build some modules, have it
  print a slightly more informative message.
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  r57320 | brett.cannon | 2007-08-23 07:53:17 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Make test_runpy re-entrant.
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  r57324 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 10:54:11 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1768121: fix wrong/missing opcode docs.
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  r57326 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 10:57:05 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1766421: "return code" vs. "status code".
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  r57328 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 11:08:06 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Second half of #1752175: #ifdef out references to PyImport_DynLoadFiletab if HAVE_DYNAMIC_LOADING is not defined.
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  r57331 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 11:11:33 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Use try-except-finally in contextlib.
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  r57343 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:35:00 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1697820: document that the old slice protocol is still used by builtin types.
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  r57345 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:40:01 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1573854: fix docs for sqlite3 cursor rowcount attr.
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  r57347 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:50:23 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1694833: fix imp.find_module() docs wrt. packages.
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  r57348 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:53:28 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1594966: fix misleading usage example
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  r57349 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:55:44 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Clarify wording a bit.
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  r57351 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:18:44 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1752332: httplib no longer uses socket.getaddrinfo().
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  r57352 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:21:36 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1734111: document struct.Struct.size.
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  r57353 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:27:57 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1688564: document os.path.join's absolute path behavior in the docstring.
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  r57354 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:36:05 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1625381: clarify match vs search introduction.
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  r57355 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:42:54 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1758696: more info about descriptors.
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  r57357 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:55:57 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Patch #1779550: remove redundant code in logging.
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  r57378 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-08-23 22:11:38 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix bug 1725856.
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  r57382 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 23:10:01 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  uuid creation is now threadsafe, backport from py3k rev. 57375.
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  r57389 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-24 04:47:37 -0700 (Fri, 24 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1765375: fix stripping of unwanted LDFLAGS.
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  r57391 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-08-24 07:53:14 -0700 (Fri, 24 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix silly typo in test name.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_datetime.py b/Lib/test/test_datetime.py
index c0a96ef..b26c92e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_datetime.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_datetime.py
@@ -1003,7 +1003,7 @@
         self.failUnless(self.theclass.min)
         self.failUnless(self.theclass.max)
 
-    def test_srftime_out_of_range(self):
+    def test_strftime_out_of_range(self):
         # For nasty technical reasons, we can't handle years before 1900.
         cls = self.theclass
         self.assertEqual(cls(1900, 1, 1).strftime("%Y"), "1900")
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_float.py b/Lib/test/test_float.py
index 4f4cffd..48abec9 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_float.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_float.py
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@
 # on an IEEE platform, all we guarantee is that bit patterns
 # representing infinities or NaNs do not raise an exception; all else
 # is accident (today).
+# let's also try to guarantee that -0.0 and 0.0 don't get confused.
 
 class IEEEFormatTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
     if float.__getformat__("double").startswith("IEEE"):
@@ -99,6 +100,20 @@
                               ('<f', LE_FLOAT_NAN)]:
                 struct.unpack(fmt, data)
 
+    if float.__getformat__("double").startswith("IEEE"):
+        def test_negative_zero(self):
+            import math
+            def pos_pos():
+                return 0.0, math.atan2(0.0, -1)
+            def pos_neg():
+                return 0.0, math.atan2(-0.0, -1)
+            def neg_pos():
+                return -0.0, math.atan2(0.0, -1)
+            def neg_neg():
+                return -0.0, math.atan2(-0.0, -1)
+            self.assertEquals(pos_pos(), neg_pos())
+            self.assertEquals(pos_neg(), neg_neg())
+
 
 def test_main():
     test_support.run_unittest(
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_runpy.py b/Lib/test/test_runpy.py
index 0fcec1e..b628d77 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_runpy.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_runpy.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 import os.path
 import sys
 import tempfile
-from test.test_support import verbose, run_unittest
+from test.test_support import verbose, run_unittest, forget
 from runpy import _run_module_code, run_module
 
 # Set up the test code and expected results
@@ -156,6 +156,7 @@
     def _check_module(self, depth):
         pkg_dir, mod_fname, mod_name = (
                self._make_pkg("x=1\n", depth))
+        forget(mod_name)
         try:
             if verbose: print("Running from source:", mod_name)
             d1 = run_module(mod_name) # Read from source
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_smtplib.py b/Lib/test/test_smtplib.py
index cf92662..c2bd196 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_smtplib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_smtplib.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import asyncore
+import email.utils
 import socket
 import threading
 import smtpd
@@ -75,6 +76,15 @@
         smtp = smtplib.SMTP("%s:%s" % (HOST, PORT))
         smtp.sock.close()
 
+    def testNotConnected(self):
+        # Test various operations on an unconnected SMTP object that
+        # should raise exceptions (at present the attempt in SMTP.send
+        # to reference the nonexistent 'sock' attribute of the SMTP object
+        # causes an AttributeError)
+        smtp = smtplib.SMTP()
+        self.assertRaises(AttributeError, smtp.ehlo)
+        self.assertRaises(AttributeError, smtp.send, 'test msg')
+
     def testLocalHostName(self):
         # check that supplied local_hostname is used
         smtp = smtplib.SMTP(HOST, PORT, local_hostname="testhost")
@@ -82,9 +92,11 @@
         smtp.sock.close()
 
     def testNonnumericPort(self):
-        # check that non-numeric port raises ValueError
+        # check that non-numeric port raises socket.error
         self.assertRaises(socket.error, smtplib.SMTP,
                           "localhost", "bogus")
+        self.assertRaises(socket.error, smtplib.SMTP,
+                          "localhost:bogus")
 
     def testTimeoutDefault(self):
         # default
@@ -110,9 +122,9 @@
         smtp.sock.close()
 
 
-# Test server using smtpd.DebuggingServer
-def debugging_server(serv_evt, client_evt):
-    serv = smtpd.DebuggingServer(("", 0), ('nowhere', -1))
+# Test server thread using the specified SMTP server class
+def debugging_server(server_class, serv_evt, client_evt):
+    serv = server_class(("", 0), ('nowhere', -1))
     global PORT
     PORT = serv.getsockname()[1]
 
@@ -148,11 +160,12 @@
 MSG_BEGIN = '---------- MESSAGE FOLLOWS ----------\n'
 MSG_END = '------------ END MESSAGE ------------\n'
 
-# Test behavior of smtpd.DebuggingServer
-# NOTE: the SMTP objects are created with a non-default local_hostname
-# argument to the constructor, since (on some systems) the FQDN lookup
-# caused by the default local_hostname sometimes takes so long that the
+# NOTE: Some SMTP objects in the tests below are created with a non-default
+# local_hostname argument to the constructor, since (on some systems) the FQDN
+# lookup caused by the default local_hostname sometimes takes so long that the
 # test server times out, causing the test to fail.
+
+# Test behavior of smtpd.DebuggingServer
 class DebuggingServerTests(TestCase):
 
     def setUp(self):
@@ -163,7 +176,7 @@
 
         self.serv_evt = threading.Event()
         self.client_evt = threading.Event()
-        serv_args = (self.serv_evt, self.client_evt)
+        serv_args = (smtpd.DebuggingServer, self.serv_evt, self.client_evt)
         threading.Thread(target=debugging_server, args=serv_args).start()
 
         # wait until server thread has assigned a port number
@@ -189,12 +202,42 @@
         smtp = smtplib.SMTP(HOST, PORT, local_hostname='localhost', timeout=3)
         smtp.quit()
 
-    def testEHLO(self):
+    def testNOOP(self):
+        smtp = smtplib.SMTP(HOST, PORT, local_hostname='localhost', timeout=3)
+        expected = (250, b'Ok')
+        self.assertEqual(smtp.noop(), expected)
+        smtp.quit()
+
+    def testRSET(self):
+        smtp = smtplib.SMTP(HOST, PORT, local_hostname='localhost', timeout=3)
+        expected = (250, b'Ok')
+        self.assertEqual(smtp.rset(), expected)
+        smtp.quit()
+
+    def testNotImplemented(self):
+        # EHLO isn't implemented in DebuggingServer
         smtp = smtplib.SMTP(HOST, PORT, local_hostname='localhost', timeout=3)
         expected = (502, b'Error: command "EHLO" not implemented')
         self.assertEqual(smtp.ehlo(), expected)
         smtp.quit()
 
+    def testVRFY(self):
+        # VRFY isn't implemented in DebuggingServer
+        smtp = smtplib.SMTP(HOST, PORT, local_hostname='localhost', timeout=3)
+        expected = (502, b'Error: command "VRFY" not implemented')
+        self.assertEqual(smtp.vrfy('nobody@nowhere.com'), expected)
+        self.assertEqual(smtp.verify('nobody@nowhere.com'), expected)
+        smtp.quit()
+
+    def testSecondHELO(self):
+        # check that a second HELO returns a message that it's a duplicate
+        # (this behavior is specific to smtpd.SMTPChannel)
+        smtp = smtplib.SMTP(HOST, PORT, local_hostname='localhost', timeout=3)
+        smtp.helo()
+        expected = (503, b'Duplicate HELO/EHLO')
+        self.assertEqual(smtp.helo(), expected)
+        smtp.quit()
+
     def testHELP(self):
         smtp = smtplib.SMTP(HOST, PORT, local_hostname='localhost', timeout=3)
         self.assertEqual(smtp.help(), b'Error: command "HELP" not implemented')
@@ -214,6 +257,7 @@
         self.assertEqual(self.output.getvalue(), mexpect)
 
 
+# test response of client to a non-successful HELO message
 class BadHELOServerTests(TestCase):
 
     def setUp(self):
@@ -243,9 +287,148 @@
         self.assertRaises(smtplib.SMTPConnectError, smtplib.SMTP,
                             HOST, PORT, 'localhost', 3)
 
+
+sim_users = {'Mr.A@somewhere.com':'John A',
+             'Ms.B@somewhere.com':'Sally B',
+             'Mrs.C@somewhereesle.com':'Ruth C',
+            }
+
+sim_lists = {'list-1':['Mr.A@somewhere.com','Mrs.C@somewhereesle.com'],
+             'list-2':['Ms.B@somewhere.com',],
+            }
+
+# Simulated SMTP channel & server
+class SimSMTPChannel(smtpd.SMTPChannel):
+    def smtp_EHLO(self, arg):
+        resp = '250-testhost\r\n' \
+               '250-EXPN\r\n' \
+               '250-SIZE 20000000\r\n' \
+               '250-STARTTLS\r\n' \
+               '250-DELIVERBY\r\n' \
+               '250 HELP'
+        self.push(resp)
+
+    def smtp_VRFY(self, arg):
+#        print '\nsmtp_VRFY(%r)\n' % arg
+
+        raw_addr = email.utils.parseaddr(arg)[1]
+        quoted_addr = smtplib.quoteaddr(arg)
+        if raw_addr in sim_users:
+            self.push('250 %s %s' % (sim_users[raw_addr], quoted_addr))
+        else:
+            self.push('550 No such user: %s' % arg)
+
+    def smtp_EXPN(self, arg):
+#        print '\nsmtp_EXPN(%r)\n' % arg
+
+        list_name = email.utils.parseaddr(arg)[1].lower()
+        if list_name in sim_lists:
+            user_list = sim_lists[list_name]
+            for n, user_email in enumerate(user_list):
+                quoted_addr = smtplib.quoteaddr(user_email)
+                if n < len(user_list) - 1:
+                    self.push('250-%s %s' % (sim_users[user_email], quoted_addr))
+                else:
+                    self.push('250 %s %s' % (sim_users[user_email], quoted_addr))
+        else:
+            self.push('550 No access for you!')
+
+
+class SimSMTPServer(smtpd.SMTPServer):
+    def handle_accept(self):
+        conn, addr = self.accept()
+        channel = SimSMTPChannel(self, conn, addr)
+
+    def process_message(self, peer, mailfrom, rcpttos, data):
+        pass
+
+
+# Test various SMTP & ESMTP commands/behaviors that require a simulated server
+# (i.e., something with more features than DebuggingServer)
+class SMTPSimTests(TestCase):
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.serv_evt = threading.Event()
+        self.client_evt = threading.Event()
+        serv_args = (SimSMTPServer, self.serv_evt, self.client_evt)
+        threading.Thread(target=debugging_server, args=serv_args).start()
+
+        # wait until server thread has assigned a port number
+        n = 500
+        while PORT is None and n > 0:
+            time.sleep(0.01)
+            n -= 1
+
+        # wait a little longer (sometimes connections are refused
+        # on slow machines without this additional wait)
+        time.sleep(0.5)
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        # indicate that the client is finished
+        self.client_evt.set()
+        # wait for the server thread to terminate
+        self.serv_evt.wait()
+
+    def testBasic(self):
+        # smoke test
+        smtp = smtplib.SMTP(HOST, PORT, local_hostname='localhost', timeout=3)
+        smtp.quit()
+
+    def testEHLO(self):
+        smtp = smtplib.SMTP(HOST, PORT, local_hostname='localhost', timeout=3)
+
+        # no features should be present before the EHLO
+        self.assertEqual(smtp.esmtp_features, {})
+
+        # features expected from the test server
+        expected_features = {'expn':'',
+                             'size': '20000000',
+                             'starttls': '',
+                             'deliverby': '',
+                             'help': '',
+                             }
+
+        smtp.ehlo()
+        self.assertEqual(smtp.esmtp_features, expected_features)
+        for k in expected_features:
+            self.assertTrue(smtp.has_extn(k))
+        self.assertFalse(smtp.has_extn('unsupported-feature'))
+        smtp.quit()
+
+    def testVRFY(self):
+        smtp = smtplib.SMTP(HOST, PORT, local_hostname='localhost', timeout=3)
+
+        for email, name in sim_users.items():
+            expected_known = (250, bytes('%s %s' %
+                                         (name, smtplib.quoteaddr(email))))
+            self.assertEqual(smtp.vrfy(email), expected_known)
+
+        u = 'nobody@nowhere.com'
+        expected_unknown = (550, bytes('No such user: %s'
+                                       % smtplib.quoteaddr(u)))
+        self.assertEqual(smtp.vrfy(u), expected_unknown)
+        smtp.quit()
+
+    def testEXPN(self):
+        smtp = smtplib.SMTP(HOST, PORT, local_hostname='localhost', timeout=3)
+
+        for listname, members in sim_lists.items():
+            users = []
+            for m in members:
+                users.append('%s %s' % (sim_users[m], smtplib.quoteaddr(m)))
+            expected_known = (250, bytes('\n'.join(users)))
+            self.assertEqual(smtp.expn(listname), expected_known)
+
+        u = 'PSU-Members-List'
+        expected_unknown = (550, b'No access for you!')
+        self.assertEqual(smtp.expn(u), expected_unknown)
+        smtp.quit()
+
+
+
 def test_main(verbose=None):
     test_support.run_unittest(GeneralTests, DebuggingServerTests,
-                              BadHELOServerTests)
+                              BadHELOServerTests, SMTPSimTests)
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     test_main()
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
index 7dfabcf..18e130d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
@@ -303,38 +303,58 @@
         SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer._send_traceback_header = False
 
     def test_simple1(self):
-        p = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://localhost:%d' % PORT)
-        self.assertEqual(p.pow(6,8), 6**8)
+        try:
+            p = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://localhost:%d' % PORT)
+            self.assertEqual(p.pow(6,8), 6**8)
+        except xmlrpclib.ProtocolError, e:
+            # protocol error; provide additional information in test output
+            self.fail("%s\n%s" % (e, e.headers))
 
     def test_introspection1(self):
-        p = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://localhost:%d' % PORT)
-        meth = p.system.listMethods()
-        expected_methods = set(['pow', 'div', 'add', 'system.listMethods',
-            'system.methodHelp', 'system.methodSignature', 'system.multicall'])
-        self.assertEqual(set(meth), expected_methods)
+        try:
+            p = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://localhost:%d' % PORT)
+            meth = p.system.listMethods()
+            expected_methods = set(['pow', 'div', 'add', 'system.listMethods',
+                'system.methodHelp', 'system.methodSignature', 'system.multicall'])
+            self.assertEqual(set(meth), expected_methods)
+        except xmlrpclib.ProtocolError, e:
+            # protocol error; provide additional information in test output
+            self.fail("%s\n%s" % (e, e.headers))
 
     def test_introspection2(self):
-        p = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://localhost:%d' % PORT)
-        divhelp = p.system.methodHelp('div')
-        self.assertEqual(divhelp, 'This is the div function')
+        try:
+            p = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://localhost:%d' % PORT)
+            divhelp = p.system.methodHelp('div')
+            self.assertEqual(divhelp, 'This is the div function')
+        except xmlrpclib.ProtocolError, e:
+            # protocol error; provide additional information in test output
+            self.fail("%s\n%s" % (e, e.headers))
 
     def test_introspection3(self):
         # the SimpleXMLRPCServer doesn't support signatures, but
         # at least check that we can try
-        p = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://localhost:%d' % PORT)
-        divsig = p.system.methodSignature('div')
-        self.assertEqual(divsig, 'signatures not supported')
+        try:
+            p = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://localhost:%d' % PORT)
+            divsig = p.system.methodSignature('div')
+            self.assertEqual(divsig, 'signatures not supported')
+        except xmlrpclib.ProtocolError, e:
+            # protocol error; provide additional information in test output
+            self.fail("%s\n%s" % (e, e.headers))
 
     def test_multicall(self):
-        p = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://localhost:%d' % PORT)
-        multicall = xmlrpclib.MultiCall(p)
-        multicall.add(2,3)
-        multicall.pow(6,8)
-        multicall.div(127,42)
-        add_result, pow_result, div_result = multicall()
-        self.assertEqual(add_result, 2+3)
-        self.assertEqual(pow_result, 6**8)
-        self.assertEqual(div_result, 127//42)
+        try:
+            p = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://localhost:%d' % PORT)
+            multicall = xmlrpclib.MultiCall(p)
+            multicall.add(2,3)
+            multicall.pow(6,8)
+            multicall.div(127,42)
+            add_result, pow_result, div_result = multicall()
+            self.assertEqual(add_result, 2+3)
+            self.assertEqual(pow_result, 6**8)
+            self.assertEqual(div_result, 127//42)
+        except xmlrpclib.ProtocolError, e:
+            # protocol error; provide additional information in test output
+            self.fail("%s\n%s" % (e, e.headers))
 
 
 # This is a contrived way to make a failure occur on the server side
@@ -375,9 +395,16 @@
         flagval = SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer._send_traceback_header
         self.assertEqual(flagval, False)
 
-        # test a call that won't fail just as a smoke test
-        p = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://localhost:%d' % PORT)
-        self.assertEqual(p.pow(6,8), 6**8)
+        # enable traceback reporting
+        SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer._send_traceback_header = True
+
+        # test a call that shouldn't fail just as a smoke test
+        try:
+            p = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy('http://localhost:%d' % PORT)
+            self.assertEqual(p.pow(6,8), 6**8)
+        except xmlrpclib.ProtocolError, e:
+            # protocol error; provide additional information in test output
+            self.fail("%s\n%s" % (e, e.headers))
 
     def test_fail_no_info(self):
         # use the broken message class