Speed up the test by avoiding socket timeouts.

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
index b9e7692af57c270984ba6ccd4f48da0750e161f9..c7b874bf0ce278bc54dda4c2139692d071623ff5 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
@@ -462,12 +462,14 @@ class SimpleServerTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
                 self.fail("%s\n%s" % (e, getattr(e, "headers", "")))
 
     def test_dotted_attribute(self):
-        # this will raise AttirebuteError because code don't want us to use
-        # private methods
+        # Raises an AttributeError because private methods are not allowed.
         self.assertRaises(AttributeError,
                           SimpleXMLRPCServer.resolve_dotted_attribute, str, '__add')
 
         self.assert_(SimpleXMLRPCServer.resolve_dotted_attribute(str, 'title'))
+        # Get the test to run faster by sending a request with test_simple1.
+        # This avoids waiting for the socket timeout.
+        self.test_simple1()
 
 # This is a contrived way to make a failure occur on the server side
 # in order to test the _send_traceback_header flag on the server
@@ -483,7 +485,7 @@ class FailingServerTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         self.evt = threading.Event()
         # start server thread to handle requests
-        serv_args = (self.evt, 2)
+        serv_args = (self.evt, 1)
         threading.Thread(target=http_server, args=serv_args).start()
 
         # wait for the server to be ready