From: Armin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org>
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 22:07:08 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: A clearer error message when passing -R to regrtest.py with
X-Git-Tag: v2.5b1~372
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a6123abb72431f0dda92044727b10177c75a02eb;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

A clearer error message when passing -R to regrtest.py with
release builds of Python.
---

diff --git a/Lib/test/regrtest.py b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
index 86961b08aac5..314e7e15319c 100755
--- a/Lib/test/regrtest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
@@ -513,6 +513,9 @@ def runtest(test, generate, verbose, quiet, testdir=None, huntrleaks=False):
     else:
         cfp = cStringIO.StringIO()
     if huntrleaks:
+        if not hasattr(sys, 'gettotalrefcount'):
+            raise Exception("Tracking reference leaks requires a debug build "
+                            "of Python")
         refrep = open(huntrleaks[2], "a")
     try:
         save_stdout = sys.stdout