Merged revisions 81294 via svnmerge from

giampaolo · giampaolo · commit 82e02b587620 · 2010-05-18T20:11:58.000Z
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r81294 | giampaolo.rodola | 2010-05-18 22:04:31 +0200 (mar, 18 mag 2010) | 1 line Fix issue #8573 (asyncore._strerror bug): fixed os.strerror typo; included NameError in the tuple of expected exception; added test case for asyncore._strerror. ........
diff --git a/Lib/asyncore.py b/Lib/asyncore.py
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@
 
 def _strerror(err):
     try:
-        return strerror(err)
-    except (ValueError, OverflowError):
+        return os.strerror(err)
+    except (ValueError, OverflowError, NameError):
         if err in errorcode:
             return errorcode[err]
         return "Unknown error %s" %err
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_asyncore.py b/Lib/test/test_asyncore.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 import sys
 import time
 import warnings
+import errno
 
 from test import support
 from test.support import TESTFN, run_unittest, unlink
@@ -324,6 +325,14 @@ def test_issue_8594(self):
             self.assertTrue(len(w) == 1)
             self.assertTrue(issubclass(w[0].category, DeprecationWarning))
 
+    def test_strerror(self):
+        # refers to bug #8573
+        err = asyncore._strerror(errno.EPERM)
+        if hasattr(os, 'strerror'):
+            self.assertEqual(err, os.strerror(errno.EPERM))
+        err = asyncore._strerror(-1)
+        self.assertTrue("unknown error" in err.lower())
+
 
 class dispatcherwithsend_noread(asyncore.dispatcher_with_send):
     def readable(self):
