Charles G. Waldman <cgq@fnal.gov>:

freddrake · freddrake · commit 33438d23faa5 · 2000-08-24T00:35:38.000Z
Update the test suite for the changes introduced by the EXTENDED_ARG opcode. This closes the regression test changes of SourceForge patch #100893.
diff --git a/Lib/test/output/test_longexp b/Lib/test/output/test_longexp
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 test_longexp
-Caught SyntaxError for long expression: expression too long (line 1)
+65580
diff --git 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)  

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@`
`1`	`1`	`test_longexp`
`2`		`-Caught SyntaxError for long expression: expression too long (line 1)`
	`2`	`+65580`