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  r78351 | r.david.murray | 2010-02-22 19:24:49 -0500 (Mon, 22 Feb 2010) | 5 lines

  Issue 6292: for the moment at least, the test suite passes if run
  with -OO.  Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.  Patch by
  Brian Curtin, thanks to Matias Torchinsky for helping review and
  improve the patch.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
-=======
 - Issue #6902: Fix problem with built-in types format incorrectly with
   0 padding.
 
@@ -782,6 +781,9 @@
 Tests
 -----
 
+- Issue #6292: for the moment at least, the test suite runs cleanly if python
+  is run with the -OO flag.  Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.
+
 - Issue #7712: test.support gained a new `temp_cwd` context manager which is
   now also used by regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory.
   The original CWD is saved in `support.SAVEDCWD`.