[Python-Dev] Test failures under Windows?

[Antoine Pitrou]

Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Note that I previously opened http://bugs.python.org/issue5116 with a 
> patch to enable this to be controlled from Python via the msvcrt module. 
>   This would enable the test suite to disable assertions for its entire run.

We certainly don't want to disable assertions during the test suite if it
silences bugs which can crash the user's interpreter.

Regards

Antoine.