Berker Peksag added the comment: What do you mean by crash? I think the purpose of the test is to crash the interpreter:
def test_recursionlimit_fatalerror(self): # A fatal error occurs if a second recursion limit is hit when recovering # from a first one. ... self.assertIn( b"Fatal Python error: Cannot recover from stack overflow", err) test_sys passes for me in Python 3.5, but not in Python 3.6: ====================================================================== FAIL: test_recursionlimit_fatalerror (test.test_sys.SysModuleTest) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/berker/projects/cpython/default/Lib/test/test_sys.py", line 281, in test_recursionlimit_fatalerror err) AssertionError: b'Fatal Python error: Cannot recover from stack overflow' not found in b'' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Running the snippet from msg276686 in Python 3.6: $ ./python -V Python 3.6.0b1+ $ ./python a.py Segmentation fault (core dumped) In Python 3.5: $ ./python -V Python 3.5.2+ $ ./python a.py Fatal Python error: Cannot recover from stack overflow. Current thread 0x00007f5965eaf700 (most recent call first): File "a.py", line 5 in f File "a.py", line 5 in f File "a.py", line 5 in f [...] ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue28179> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com