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  r83431 | ronald.oussoren | 2010-08-01 21:18:13 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 6 lines

  test_getgroups as introduced with issue7900 failed on systems
  where 'id -G' and posix.getgroups() returned the same information,
  but one of the sources contains duplicate information. Rewrite the
  check using sets instead of lists.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_posix.py b/Lib/test/test_posix.py
index a830c369c2857d342171cab4cdad184d86ef4b2f..42ad1af7d3bcf24b9b252afc46684c60df6031af 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/test/test_posix.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_posix.py
@@ -281,11 +281,11 @@ class PosixTester(unittest.TestCase):
         if not groups:
             raise unittest.SkipTest("need working 'id -G'")
 
-        # The order of groups isn't important, hence the calls
-        # to sorted.
+        # 'id -G' and 'os.getgroups()' should return the same
+        # groups, ignoring order and duplicates.
         self.assertEqual(
-                list(sorted([int(x) for x in groups.split()])),
-                list(sorted(posix.getgroups())))
+                set([int(x) for x in groups.split()]),
+                set(posix.getgroups()))
 
 class PosixGroupsTester(unittest.TestCase):