Tweak test_communicate_stderr so that it works when run under a pydebug build.

bcannon · bcannon · commit 2709c7abe5ff · 2005-03-05T06:40:52.000Z
git-svn-id: http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk@38579 6015fed2-1504-0410-9fe1-9d1591cc4771
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
@@ -269,7 +269,9 @@ def test_communicate_stderr(self):
                              stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
         (stdout, stderr) = p.communicate()
         self.assertEqual(stdout, None)
-        self.assertEqual(stderr, "pineapple")
+        # When running with a pydebug build, the # of references is outputted
+        # to stderr, so just check if stderr at least started with "pinapple"
+        self.assert_(stderr.startswith("pineapple"))
 
     def test_communicate(self):
         p = subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, "-c",
