[pypy-commit] pypy default: Disable a half-broken test that fails on Python 2.7 (see comments).

[arigo]

Author: Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org>
Branch: 
Changeset: r49622:ab5c477f2f34
Date: 2011-11-21 16:17 +0100
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/ab5c477f2f34/

Log:	Disable a half-broken test that fails on Python 2.7 (see comments).

diff --git a/pypy/rpython/test/test_rclass.py b/pypy/rpython/test/test_rclass.py
--- a/pypy/rpython/test/test_rclass.py
+++ b/pypy/rpython/test/test_rclass.py
@@ -457,8 +457,12 @@
                     compute_identity_hash(d))
 
         res = self.interpret(f, [])
-        # xxx this is too precise, checking the exact implementation
-        assert res.item0 == res.item1
+        # xxx the following test is too precise, checking the exact
+        # implementation.  On Python 2.7 it doesn't work anyway, because
+        # object.__hash__(x) is different from id(x).  The test is disabled
+        # for now, and nobody should rely on compute_identity_hash() returning
+        # a value that is (or was) the current_object_addr_as_int().
+        # --- disabled: assert res.item0 == res.item1
         # the following property is essential on top of the lltypesystem
         # otherwise prebuilt dictionaries are broken.  It's wrong on
         # top of the ootypesystem though.