[New-bugs-announce] [issue3633] float.fromhex discrepancy under Solaris

[Antoine Pitrou]

New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr>:

This is a failure that seems to occur quite often (always?) on the
Solaris buildbot:

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FAIL: test_invalid_inputs (test.test_float.HexFloatTestCase)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File
"/home2/buildbot/slave/3.0.loewis-sun/build/Lib/test/test_float.py",
line 451, in test_invalid_inputs
    self.assertRaises(ValueError, fromHex, x)
AssertionError: ValueError not raised by fromhex

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 71635
nosy: pitrou
priority: critical
severity: normal
status: open
title: float.fromhex discrepancy under Solaris
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6, Python 3.0

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