commit 1e9d54c15af1087f6af4beeb37cb2488c8a66270
author Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> Mon Nov 09 20:10:01 2009 +0000
committer Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> Mon Nov 09 20:10:01 2009 +0000
tree 56e648053cc34ecc5a78d36ec86ee8dc5fe72e27
parent 94882db60fa09f2a2714cfd93ec1a53385b7b271

Merged revisions 76185 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@www.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r76185 | mark.dickinson | 2009-11-09 20:08:57 +0000 (Mon, 09 Nov 2009) | 9 lines

  Merged revisions 76182 via svnmerge from
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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    r76182 | mark.dickinson | 2009-11-09 19:54:51 +0000 (Mon, 09 Nov 2009) | 1 line

    Add extra information to a test_signal failure message to aid diagnosis of buildbot failure.
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Lib/test/test_signal.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_signal.py b/Lib/test/test_signal.py
index c00a77f..09d0cec 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_signal.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_signal.py
@@ -367,7 +367,9 @@
             if signal.getitimer(self.itimer) == (0.0, 0.0):
                 break # sig_vtalrm handler stopped this itimer
         else:
-            self.fail('timeout waiting for sig_vtalrm signal')
+            self.fail('timeout waiting for sig_vtalrm signal; '
+                      'signal.getitimer(self.itimer) gives: %s' %
+                       (signal.getitimer(self.itimer),))
 
         # virtual itimer should be (0.0, 0.0) now
         self.assertEquals(signal.getitimer(self.itimer), (0.0, 0.0))