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  r78793 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-08 13:25:35 +0100 (lun, 08 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix macpath to deal with bytes
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  r78798 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-08 14:32:17 +0100 (lun, 08 mar 2010) | 18 lines

  Merged revisions 78777,78787,78790 via svnmerge from
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    r78777 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-08 00:49:03 +0100 (lun, 08 mar 2010) | 4 lines

    Backport the Popen.poll() protection from subprocess to multiprocessing. See #1731717.
    It should fix transient failures on test_multiprocessing.
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    r78787 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-08 08:21:16 +0100 (lun, 08 mar 2010) | 2 lines

    Don't fail on a debug() statement, if the worker PID is (still) None.
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    r78790 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-08 12:01:39 +0100 (lun, 08 mar 2010) | 2 lines

    On finalize, don't try to join not started process.
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  r78799 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-08 15:44:41 +0100 (lun, 08 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix ntpath abspath to deal with bytes.
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  r78977 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-15 14:14:39 +0100 (lun, 15 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix \xhh specs, #1889.  (an oversight of r60193, r60210).
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  r79095 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-19 15:40:31 +0100 (ven, 19 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  Rename test.test_support to test.support for 3.x.
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  r79196 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-21 13:29:50 +0100 (dim, 21 mar 2010) | 9 lines

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    r79195 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-21 13:27:20 +0100 (dim, 21 mar 2010) | 2 lines

    Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
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  r79474 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-28 01:25:02 +0100 (dim, 28 mar 2010) | 33 lines

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    r79297 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-22 18:18:18 +0100 (lun, 22 mar 2010) | 2 lines

    #7668: Fix test_httpservers failure when sys.executable contains non-ASCII bytes.
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    r79310 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-22 23:52:11 +0100 (lun, 22 mar 2010) | 2 lines

    Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is running from the build directory (POSIX only).
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    r79382 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-24 20:33:25 +0100 (mer, 24 mar 2010) | 2 lines

    Skip tests which depend on multiprocessing.sharedctypes, if _ctypes is not available.
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    r79425 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-25 21:32:07 +0100 (jeu, 25 mar 2010) | 2 lines

    Syntax cleanup `== None` -> `is None`
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    r79426 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-25 21:33:49 +0100 (jeu, 25 mar 2010) | 2 lines

    #8207: Fix test_pep277 on OS X
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    r79427 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-25 21:39:10 +0100 (jeu, 25 mar 2010) | 2 lines

    Fix test_unittest and test_warnings when running "python -Werror -m test.regrtest"
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    r79450 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-26 20:32:44 +0100 (ven, 26 mar 2010) | 2 lines

    Ensure that the failed or unexpected tests are sorted before printing.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py b/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
index d3620b7..f901a05 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
@@ -64,6 +64,16 @@
 WIN32 = (sys.platform == "win32")
 
 #
+# Some tests require ctypes
+#
+
+try:
+    from ctypes import Structure, Value, copy, c_int, c_double
+except ImportError:
+    Structure = object
+    c_int = c_double = None
+
+#
 # Creates a wrapper for a function which records the time it takes to finish
 #
 
@@ -506,7 +516,7 @@
         queue = self.JoinableQueue()
 
         if sys.version_info < (2, 5) and not hasattr(queue, 'task_done'):
-            return
+            self.skipTest("requires 'queue.task_done()' method")
 
         workers = [self.Process(target=self._test_task_done, args=(queue,))
                    for i in range(4)]
@@ -783,6 +793,8 @@
 
 class _TestValue(BaseTestCase):
 
+    ALLOWED_TYPES = ('processes',)
+
     codes_values = [
         ('i', 4343, 24234),
         ('d', 3.625, -4.25),
@@ -795,10 +807,8 @@
             sv.value = cv[2]
 
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(c_int is None, "requires _ctypes")
     def test_value(self, raw=False):
-        if self.TYPE != 'processes':
-            return
-
         if raw:
             values = [self.RawValue(code, value)
                       for code, value, _ in self.codes_values]
@@ -816,13 +826,12 @@
         for sv, cv in zip(values, self.codes_values):
             self.assertEqual(sv.value, cv[2])
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(c_int is None, "requires _ctypes")
     def test_rawvalue(self):
         self.test_value(raw=True)
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(c_int is None, "requires _ctypes")
     def test_getobj_getlock(self):
-        if self.TYPE != 'processes':
-            return
-
         val1 = self.Value('i', 5)
         lock1 = val1.get_lock()
         obj1 = val1.get_obj()
@@ -850,14 +859,14 @@
 
 class _TestArray(BaseTestCase):
 
+    ALLOWED_TYPES = ('processes',)
+
     def f(self, seq):
         for i in range(1, len(seq)):
             seq[i] += seq[i-1]
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(c_int is None, "requires _ctypes")
     def test_array(self, raw=False):
-        if self.TYPE != 'processes':
-            return
-
         seq = [680, 626, 934, 821, 150, 233, 548, 982, 714, 831]
         if raw:
             arr = self.RawArray('i', seq)
@@ -880,13 +889,12 @@
 
         self.assertEqual(list(arr[:]), seq)
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(c_int is None, "requires _ctypes")
     def test_rawarray(self):
         self.test_array(raw=True)
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(c_int is None, "requires _ctypes")
     def test_getobj_getlock_obj(self):
-        if self.TYPE != 'processes':
-            return
-
         arr1 = self.Array('i', list(range(10)))
         lock1 = arr1.get_lock()
         obj1 = arr1.get_obj()
@@ -1538,12 +1546,6 @@
 #
 #
 
-try:
-    from ctypes import Structure, Value, copy, c_int, c_double
-except ImportError:
-    Structure = object
-    c_int = c_double = None
-
 class _Foo(Structure):
     _fields_ = [
         ('x', c_int),
@@ -1563,10 +1565,8 @@
         for i in range(len(arr)):
             arr[i] *= 2
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(c_int is None, "requires _ctypes")
     def test_sharedctypes(self, lock=False):
-        if c_int is None:
-            return
-
         x = Value('i', 7, lock=lock)
         y = Value(ctypes.c_double, 1.0/3.0, lock=lock)
         foo = Value(_Foo, 3, 2, lock=lock)
@@ -1589,10 +1589,8 @@
     def test_synchronize(self):
         self.test_sharedctypes(lock=True)
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(c_int is None, "requires _ctypes")
     def test_copy(self):
-        if c_int is None:
-            return
-
         foo = _Foo(2, 5.0)
         bar = copy(foo)
         foo.x = 0
@@ -1664,13 +1662,17 @@
     ALLOWED_TYPES = ('processes',)
 
     def test_import(self):
-        modules = (
+        modules = [
             'multiprocessing', 'multiprocessing.connection',
             'multiprocessing.heap', 'multiprocessing.managers',
             'multiprocessing.pool', 'multiprocessing.process',
-            'multiprocessing.reduction', 'multiprocessing.sharedctypes',
+            'multiprocessing.reduction',
             'multiprocessing.synchronize', 'multiprocessing.util'
-            )
+            ]
+
+        if c_int is not None:
+            # This module requires _ctypes
+            modules.append('multiprocessing.sharedctypes')
 
         for name in modules:
             __import__(name)
@@ -1730,12 +1732,12 @@
 
 class TestInvalidHandle(unittest.TestCase):
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(WIN32, "skipped on Windows")
     def test_invalid_handles(self):
-        if WIN32:
-            return
         conn = _multiprocessing.Connection(44977608)
         self.assertRaises(IOError, conn.poll)
         self.assertRaises(IOError, _multiprocessing.Connection, -1)
+
 #
 # Functions used to create test cases from the base ones in this module
 #
@@ -1752,7 +1754,7 @@
 def create_test_cases(Mixin, type):
     result = {}
     glob = globals()
-    Type = type[0].upper() + type[1:]
+    Type = type.capitalize()
 
     for name in list(glob.keys()):
         if name.startswith('_Test'):