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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/test/test_unicode.py')
-rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/test_unicode.py | 11 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py index b3d6907eac..5d887ed92f 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py @@ -1118,14 +1118,9 @@ class UnicodeTest( # when a string allocation fails with a MemoryError. # This used to crash the interpreter, # or leak references when the number was smaller. - try: - u"a" * (sys.maxint // 2 - 100) - except MemoryError: - pass - try: - u"a" * (sys.maxint // 2 - 100) - except MemoryError: - pass + alloc = lambda: u"a" * (sys.maxsize - 100) + self.assertRaises(MemoryError, alloc) + self.assertRaises(MemoryError, alloc) def test_main(): test_support.run_unittest(__name__) |