Issue #19235: Add new RecursionError exception. Patch by Georg Brandl.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_isinstance.py b/Lib/test/test_isinstance.py
index e087ac0bad..e63d59b346 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_isinstance.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_isinstance.py
@@ -258,18 +258,18 @@ class TestIsInstanceIsSubclass(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(True, issubclass(str, (str, (Child, NewChild, str))))
 
     def test_subclass_recursion_limit(self):
-        # make sure that issubclass raises RuntimeError before the C stack is
+        # make sure that issubclass raises RecursionError before the C stack is
         # blown
-        self.assertRaises(RuntimeError, blowstack, issubclass, str, str)
+        self.assertRaises(RecursionError, blowstack, issubclass, str, str)
 
     def test_isinstance_recursion_limit(self):
-        # make sure that issubclass raises RuntimeError before the C stack is
+        # make sure that issubclass raises RecursionError before the C stack is
         # blown
-        self.assertRaises(RuntimeError, blowstack, isinstance, '', str)
+        self.assertRaises(RecursionError, blowstack, isinstance, '', str)
 
 def blowstack(fxn, arg, compare_to):
     # Make sure that calling isinstance with a deeply nested tuple for its
-    # argument will raise RuntimeError eventually.
+    # argument will raise RecursionError eventually.
     tuple_arg = (compare_to,)
     for cnt in range(sys.getrecursionlimit()+5):
         tuple_arg = (tuple_arg,)