[New-bugs-announce] [issue10985] test_sys triggers a fatal python error when run under coverage.py

[Brett Cannon]

New submission from Brett Cannon <brett at python.org>:

If you run test_sys under coverage.py with ``./python.exe -m coverage run --pylib Lib/test/regrtest.py test_sys`` you get::

  Fatal Python error: Cannot recover from stack overflow

Have not taken the time to try to figure out exactly what code is triggering the recursion, but coverage.py is being used w/o its extension coverage support. Could be caused by coverage.py, but I'm a bit surprised that it's a fatal error instead of a recursion limit exception.

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messages: 126865
nosy: brett.cannon
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: unit test needed
status: open
title: test_sys triggers a fatal python error when run under coverage.py
type: crash
versions: Python 3.2

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