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  r66028 | neal.norwitz | 2008-08-24 20:52:40 -0700 (Sun, 24 Aug 2008) | 1 line

  Try to reduce the flakiness of this test
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_smtplib.py b/Lib/test/test_smtplib.py
index 6a94658..55e30a8 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_smtplib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_smtplib.py
@@ -220,6 +220,10 @@
         m = 'A test message'
         smtp = smtplib.SMTP(HOST, self.port, local_hostname='localhost', timeout=3)
         smtp.sendmail('John', 'Sally', m)
+        # XXX(nnorwitz): this test is flaky and dies with a bad file descriptor
+        # in asyncore.  This sleep might help, but should really be fixed
+        # properly by using an Event variable.
+        time.sleep(0.01)
         smtp.quit()
 
         self.client_evt.set()