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Thu May 13 20:41:45 CEST 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-May/100072.html

Bill Janssen wrote:
> Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> 
>> Bill Janssen wrote:
>>> I've got parc-tiger-1 up and running again.  It's failing on test_tk,
>>> which makes sense, because it's running as a background twisted process,
>>> and thus can't access the window server.
>> It doesn't really make sense. It should skip the test, instead of
>> failing it. I.e. aborting the Python process is definitely not a good
>> response.
> 
> Yes, you're right.  It's a bug in the test.

No, I'd say it's even deeper, in the Tcl integration.

There shouldn't be a way to cause an interpreter abort, except by
calling os.abort().

Regards,
Martin

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