[issue19613] test_nntplib: sporadic failures, test_article_head_body()

[Martin Panter]

Martin Panter added the comment:

I presume the original report was due to testing when the server happened to return an article with an empty body. The failing test is

# XXX this could exceptionally happen...
self.assertNotIn(article.lines[-1], (b".", b".\n", b".\r\n"))

The test code already admits that what it is testing cannot be guaranteed (an article body could end with a full stop). And we have found another case where the test is not valid (an article with zero lines). I say remove this part of the test, at least when testing the article() and body() methods.

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