[Python-Dev] OK to lower timeout for test_timeout's testConnectTimeout test?

[Michael Hudson]

Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> writes:

> "A.M. Kuchling" <amk at amk.ca> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 12:40:23PM +0100, Michael Hudson wrote:
>>> ONE of these days, I'll get around to doing something about
>>> test_curses... the test is being silly (or at least, that's what I
>>> remember from the last time I dug into this).
>>
>> What's test_curses doing wrong?
>
> I think the problem is that it sometimes calls "curses.curs_set(1)"
> which doesn't work

Argh; it *always* calls curses.curs_set(1) which *sometimes* doesn't
work...

> (returns ERR) when certain definitions (cuvis, I guess) aren't in
> the terminfo database, which gets translated into a Python
> exception.
>

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