From: Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 13:32:08 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: cygwin's curses support isn't up to scratch to run the tests.
X-Git-Tag: v2.5a1~18
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=768018592cabfbf1e3199bd25b14ceec54476ce3;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

cygwin's curses support isn't up to scratch to run the tests.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_curses.py b/Lib/test/test_curses.py
index a4a45a7302df..126251eda954 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_curses.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_curses.py
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ term = os.environ.get('TERM')
 if not term or term == 'unknown':
     raise TestSkipped, "$TERM=%r, calling initscr() may cause exit" % term
 
+if sys.platform == "cygwin":
+    raise TestSkipped("cygwin's curses mostly just hangs")
+
 def window_funcs(stdscr):
     "Test the methods of windows"
     win = curses.newwin(10,10)