[Python-checkins] bpo-40214: Temporarily disable a ctypes test (GH-19404)

[Zachary Ware]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f407e209c1e35b64835f73e7e7ca23e33817e9fe
commit: f407e209c1e35b64835f73e7e7ca23e33817e9fe
branch: master
author: Zachary Ware <zach at python.org>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2020-04-07T01:39:58-05:00
summary:

bpo-40214: Temporarily disable a ctypes test (GH-19404)

Only one particular sub-test of
ctypes.test.test_loading.test_load_dll_with_flags is disabled, which
caused failures on Azure Pipelines CI.

files:
M Lib/ctypes/test/test_loading.py

diff --git a/Lib/ctypes/test/test_loading.py b/Lib/ctypes/test/test_loading.py
index 9b97d80086044..a62044e370af6 100644
--- a/Lib/ctypes/test/test_loading.py
+++ b/Lib/ctypes/test/test_loading.py
@@ -158,8 +158,11 @@ def should_fail(command):
             # Relative path (but not just filename) should succeed
             should_pass("WinDLL('./_sqlite3.dll')")
 
-            # Insecure load flags should succeed
-            should_pass("WinDLL('_sqlite3.dll', winmode=0)")
+            # XXX: This test has started failing on Azure Pipelines CI.  See
+            #      bpo-40214 for more information.
+            if 0:
+                # Insecure load flags should succeed
+                should_pass("WinDLL('_sqlite3.dll', winmode=0)")
 
             # Full path load without DLL_LOAD_DIR shouldn't find dependency
             should_fail("WinDLL(nt._getfullpathname('_sqlite3.dll'), " +