On some systems (e.g., Ubuntu on hppa) the flush()

doesn't cause the exception, but the close() does.

Will backport.

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_resource.py b/Lib/test/test_resource.py
index 09ac4d53ca7bb3313c90a2320def00b8e12c93fe..3ff31bb33dd5be97b1c0e7fc3ee1ced32e29f0a2 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/test/test_resource.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_resource.py
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ class ResourceTest(unittest.TestCase):
                     try:
                         f.write("Y")
                         f.flush()
+                        # On some systems (e.g., Ubuntu on hppa) the flush()
+                        # doesn't cause the exception, but the close() does.
+                        f.close()
                     except IOError:
                         if not limit_set:
                             raise