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-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_pwd.py33
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pwd.py b/Lib/test/test_pwd.py
index 255a34c6d4..67e11b6859 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pwd.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pwd.py
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
+import sys
import unittest
from test import test_support
-import pwd
+pwd = test_support.import_module('pwd')
class PwdTest(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -13,19 +14,19 @@ class PwdTest(unittest.TestCase):
for e in entries:
self.assertEqual(len(e), 7)
self.assertEqual(e[0], e.pw_name)
- self.assert_(isinstance(e.pw_name, basestring))
+ self.assertIsInstance(e.pw_name, basestring)
self.assertEqual(e[1], e.pw_passwd)
- self.assert_(isinstance(e.pw_passwd, basestring))
+ self.assertIsInstance(e.pw_passwd, basestring)
self.assertEqual(e[2], e.pw_uid)
- self.assert_(isinstance(e.pw_uid, int))
+ self.assertIsInstance(e.pw_uid, int)
self.assertEqual(e[3], e.pw_gid)
- self.assert_(isinstance(e.pw_gid, int))
+ self.assertIsInstance(e.pw_gid, int)
self.assertEqual(e[4], e.pw_gecos)
- self.assert_(isinstance(e.pw_gecos, basestring))
+ self.assertIsInstance(e.pw_gecos, basestring)
self.assertEqual(e[5], e.pw_dir)
- self.assert_(isinstance(e.pw_dir, basestring))
+ self.assertIsInstance(e.pw_dir, basestring)
self.assertEqual(e[6], e.pw_shell)
- self.assert_(isinstance(e.pw_shell, basestring))
+ self.assertIsInstance(e.pw_shell, basestring)
# The following won't work, because of duplicate entries
# for one uid
@@ -43,8 +44,8 @@ class PwdTest(unittest.TestCase):
for e in entries:
if not e[0] or e[0] == '+':
continue # skip NIS entries etc.
- self.assert_(pwd.getpwnam(e.pw_name) in entriesbyname[e.pw_name])
- self.assert_(pwd.getpwuid(e.pw_uid) in entriesbyuid[e.pw_uid])
+ self.assertIn(pwd.getpwnam(e.pw_name), entriesbyname[e.pw_name])
+ self.assertIn(pwd.getpwuid(e.pw_uid), entriesbyuid[e.pw_uid])
def test_errors(self):
self.assertRaises(TypeError, pwd.getpwuid)
@@ -83,11 +84,13 @@ class PwdTest(unittest.TestCase):
self.assertRaises(KeyError, pwd.getpwnam, fakename)
- # Choose a non-existent uid.
- fakeuid = 4127
- while fakeuid in byuids:
- fakeuid = (fakeuid * 3) % 0x10000
-
+ # In some cases, byuids isn't a complete list of all users in the
+ # system, so if we try to pick a value not in byuids (via a perturbing
+ # loop, say), pwd.getpwuid() might still be able to find data for that
+ # uid. Using sys.maxint may provoke the same problems, but hopefully
+ # it will be a more repeatable failure.
+ fakeuid = sys.maxint
+ self.assertNotIn(fakeuid, byuids)
self.assertRaises(KeyError, pwd.getpwuid, fakeuid)
def test_main():