From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 19:31:25 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: More robust way of choosing a non-existant uid (faster, too).
X-Git-Tag: v1.5a3~516
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6308d510e954ad1076b579d91e42874de6a0bcde;p=python

More robust way of choosing a non-existant uid (faster, too).
---

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pwd.py b/Lib/test/test_pwd.py
index 1c2208d2e0..2fc8da8a59 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pwd.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pwd.py
@@ -59,10 +59,10 @@ except KeyError:
 else:
     print 'fakename', fakename, 'did not except pwd.getpwnam()'
 
-uids = byuids.keys()
-uids.sort()
-uids.reverse()
-fakeuid = uids[0] + 1
+# Choose a non-existant uid.
+fakeuid = 4127
+while byuids.has_key(fakeuid):
+    print 'fakeuid =', fakeuid
 
 try:
     pwd.getpwuid(fakeuid)