Re: [Python-Dev] Suspect intermittent failure in buildbots

2008-10-03 Thread Guido van Rossum
Module globals are also reset when the module *object* is garbage-collected (e.g. it's removed from sys.modules and not referenced elsewhere), but the module *dict* is still referenced. This can happen if all uses of the module is of the form "from import " where the is a class or function, and a

[Python-Dev] Suspect intermittent failure in buildbots

2008-10-03 Thread Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
I've noticed an error that comes up from time to time in python 3.0 buildbots. The error is always similar to this one: Traceback (most recent call last): File "E:\cygwin\home\db3l\buildarea\3.0.bolen-windows\build\lib\test\test_io.py", line 900, in testBasicIO self.assertEquals(f.write("ab