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  r75889 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-28 00:00:28 +0100 (Mi, 28 Okt 2009) | 9 lines

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    r75887 | georg.brandl | 2009-10-27 23:56:09 +0100 (Di, 27 Okt 2009) | 1 line

    Make sure every run of test_intern() interns a new string, otherwise that test fails e.g. when some other test in test_builtin fails and it is rerun in verbose mode.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sys.py b/Lib/test/test_sys.py
index cac90f4..1678397 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sys.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sys.py
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@
 import subprocess
 import textwrap
 
+# count the number of test runs, used to create unique
+# strings to intern in test_intern()
+numruns = 0
+
+
 class SysModuleTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def setUp(self):
@@ -379,8 +384,10 @@
         self.assertEqual(sys.__stdout__.encoding, sys.__stderr__.encoding)
 
     def test_intern(self):
+        global numruns
+        numruns += 1
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, sys.intern)
-        s = "never interned before"
+        s = "never interned before" + str(numruns)
         self.assertTrue(sys.intern(s) is s)
         s2 = s.swapcase().swapcase()
         self.assertTrue(sys.intern(s2) is s)