[issue25029] MemoryError in test_strptime

[Serhiy Storchaka]

New submission from Serhiy Storchaka:

All builds on edelsohn-fedora-ppc64 are red starting from build 55 for 3.x and build 41 for 3.5. 3.4 is green.
http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/PPC64%20Fedora%203.x/builds/55/
http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/PPC64%20Fedora%203.5/builds/41/

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ERROR: test_TimeRE_recreation (test.test_strptime.CacheTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.5.edelsohn-fedora-ppc64/build/Lib/test/test_strptime.py", line 565, in test_TimeRE_recreation
    _strptime._strptime_time('10', '%d')
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.5.edelsohn-fedora-ppc64/build/Lib/_strptime.py", line 494, in _strptime_time
    tt = _strptime(data_string, format)[0]
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.5.edelsohn-fedora-ppc64/build/Lib/_strptime.py", line 312, in _strptime
    _TimeRE_cache = TimeRE()
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.5.edelsohn-fedora-ppc64/build/Lib/_strptime.py", line 190, in __init__
    self.locale_time = LocaleTime()
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.5.edelsohn-fedora-ppc64/build/Lib/_strptime.py", line 75, in __init__
    self.__calc_am_pm()
  File "/home/shager/cpython-buildarea/3.5.edelsohn-fedora-ppc64/build/Lib/_strptime.py", line 114, in __calc_am_pm
    am_pm.append(time.strftime("%p", time_tuple).lower())
MemoryError

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components: Extension Modules
messages: 250177
nosy: David.Edelsohn, larry, serhiy.storchaka
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: MemoryError in test_strptime
type: crash
versions: Python 3.5, Python 3.6

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