1 files changed, 3 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_longexp.py b/Lib/test/test_longexp.py
index 38eb79b1c8..2d57285df5 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_longexp.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_longexp.py
@@ -1,18 +1,4 @@
-REPS = 8192
-
-try:
-    eval("2+2+" * REPS + "+3.14159265")
-except SyntaxError, msg:
-    print "Caught SyntaxError for long expression:", msg
-else:
-    print "Long expression did not raise SyntaxError"
-
-## This test prints "s_push: parser stack overflow" on stderr,
-    ## which seems to confuse the test harness
-##try:
-##    eval("(2+" * REPS + "0" + ")" * REPS)
-##except SyntaxError:
-##    pass
-##else:
-##    print "Deeply nested expression did not raised SyntaxError"
+REPS = 65580
 
+l = eval("[" + "2," * REPS + "]") 
+print len(l)