From: Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 09:01:06 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: A disgusting "fix" for the test___all__ failure under Windows.
X-Git-Tag: v2.2a3~1790
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a0599575aafdd7193d7f9be05801ec9f94cac275;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

A disgusting "fix" for the test___all__ failure under Windows.
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diff --git a/Lib/pty.py b/Lib/pty.py
index fb7edc0fea73..c9b8f0a397e7 100644
--- a/Lib/pty.py
+++ b/Lib/pty.py
@@ -8,6 +8,17 @@
 
 from select import select
 import os
+
+# Absurd:  import termios and then delete it.  This is to force an attempt
+# to import pty to raise an ImportError on platforms that lack termios.
+# Without this explicit import of termios here, some other module may
+# import tty first, which in turn imports termios and dies with an
+# ImportError then.  But since tty *does* exist across platforms, that
+# leaves a damaged module object for tty in sys.modules, and the import
+# of tty here then appears to work despite that the tty imported is junk.
+import termios 
+del termios
+
 import tty
 
 __all__ = ["openpty","fork","spawn"]