bpo-40275: Avoid importing socket in test.support (GH-19603)
* Move socket related functions from test.support to socket_helper.
* Import socket, nntplib and urllib.error lazily in transient_internet().
* Remove importing multiprocess.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
index e5c3496..f68af52 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
import io
import contextlib
from test import support
+from test.support import socket_helper
from test.support import ALWAYS_EQ, LARGEST, SMALLEST
try:
@@ -334,7 +335,7 @@
server.handle_request() # First request and attempt at second
server.handle_request() # Retried second request
- server = http.server.HTTPServer((support.HOST, 0), RequestHandler)
+ server = http.server.HTTPServer((socket_helper.HOST, 0), RequestHandler)
self.addCleanup(server.server_close)
thread = threading.Thread(target=run_server)
thread.start()