commit ec9bea4a3766bd815148a27f61eb24e7dd459ac7
author Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org> Wed Apr 29 17:11:48 2020 +0200
committer GitHub <noreply@github.com> Wed Apr 29 17:11:48 2020 +0200
tree 808f462e186e6c7ff286186bac813af8488325c7
parent 9a8c1315c3041fdb85d091bb8dc92f0d9dcb1529

bpo-40436: Fix code parsing gdb version (GH-19792)

test_gdb and test.pythoninfo now check gdb command exit code.

Lib/test/pythoninfo.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/pythoninfo.py b/Lib/test/pythoninfo.py
index cc230dd..cc0bbc5 100644
--- a/Lib/test/pythoninfo.py
+++ b/Lib/test/pythoninfo.py
@@ -376,6 +376,9 @@
                                 stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
                                 universal_newlines=True)
         version = proc.communicate()[0]
+        if proc.returncode:
+            # ignore gdb failure: test_gdb will log the error
+            return
     except OSError:
         return