the test works as expected (i.e. it fails). The problem I had was that
some Bittorrent bencode also installed a test package for me.
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ERROR: test_flat_list (__main__.cPickleFlatList)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Lib/test/test_cpickle.py", line 113, in test_flat_list
cPickle.dumps(lst)
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded
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Ran 159 tests in 0.457s
FAILED (errors=1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Lib/test/test_cpickle.py", line 128, in <module>
test_main()
File "Lib/test/test_cpickle.py", line 124, in test_main
cPickleFlatList,
File "/home/ralf/pydev/trunk/Lib/test/test_support.py", line 714, in
run_unittest
_run_suite(suite)
File "/home/ralf/pydev/trunk/Lib/test/test_support.py", line 697, in
_run_suite
raise TestFailed(err)
test.test_support.TestFailed: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Lib/test/test_cpickle.py", line 113, in test_flat_list
cPickle.dumps(lst)
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded