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  r78281 | mark.dickinson | 2010-02-21 13:37:53 +0000 (Sun, 21 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  Issue #7384:  skip test_curses on FreeBSD, in order to allow other buildbot tests to complete.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_curses.py b/Lib/test/test_curses.py
index b2ea4df6ce96205cd8773f3f5ffdfda04005734f..cdb90dbf8b64f0346384d59b327527095c35398d 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/test/test_curses.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_curses.py
@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ import curses.panel
 from test.test_support import requires, TestSkipped
 requires('curses')
 
+# skip all these tests on FreeBSD: test_curses currently hangs the
+# FreeBSD buildbots, preventing other tests from running.  See issue
+# #7384.
+if 'freebsd' in sys.platform:
+    raise unittest.SkipTest('The curses module is broken on FreeBSD.  See http://bugs.python.org/issue7384.')
+
 # XXX: if newterm was supported we could use it instead of initscr and not exit
 term = os.environ.get('TERM')
 if not term or term == 'unknown':