From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 19:41:51 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Integrate the tests for name interning from PyXML (test_pyexpat.py
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~5187
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1add023b882273f928955df8f4a917952a89d910;p=python

Integrate the tests for name interning from PyXML (test_pyexpat.py
revision 1.12 in PyXML).
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py b/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py
index 404dc35531..22b3099b79 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pyexpat.py
@@ -200,3 +200,21 @@ else:
 # http://mail.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/2001-April/005202.html
 #
 expat.ParserCreate(namespace_separator='') # too short
+
+# Test the interning machinery.
+p = expat.ParserCreate()
+L = []
+def collector(name, *args):
+    L.append(name)
+p.StartElementHandler = collector
+p.EndElementHandler = collector
+p.Parse("<e> <e/> <e></e> </e>", 1)
+tag = L[0]
+if len(L) != 6:
+    print "L should only contain 6 entries; found", len(L)
+for entry in L:
+    if tag is not entry:
+        print "expected L to contain many references to the same string",
+        print "(it didn't)"
+        print "L =", `L`
+        break