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.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py b/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
index 5f2d3b3..43ad2c1 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
@@ -219,6 +219,8 @@
 
 class PyDocDocTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(sys.flags.optimize >= 2,
+                     "Docstrings are omitted with -O2 and above")
     def test_html_doc(self):
         result, doc_loc = get_pydoc_html(pydoc_mod)
         mod_file = inspect.getabsfile(pydoc_mod)
@@ -232,6 +234,8 @@
             print_diffs(expected_html, result)
             self.fail("outputs are not equal, see diff above")
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(sys.flags.optimize >= 2,
+                     "Docstrings are omitted with -O2 and above")
     def test_text_doc(self):
         result, doc_loc = get_pydoc_text(pydoc_mod)
         expected_text = expected_text_pattern % \