From: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 02:00:24 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Issue #1777412: test large years value for strftime('%Y')
X-Git-Tag: v3.2rc1~115
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=736913269e19d4ac8bcf154921783554456ea681;p=python

Issue #1777412: test large years value for strftime('%Y')
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_time.py b/Lib/test/test_time.py
index c2fd9ff1b5..3db25bb85d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_time.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_time.py
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ class _TestAsctimeYear:
         return time.asctime((y,) + (0,) * 8).split()[-1]
 
     def test_large_year(self):
-        # Check that it doesn't crash with year > 9999
+        # Check that it doesn't crash for year > 9999
         self.assertEqual(self.yearstr(12345), '12345')
         self.assertEqual(self.yearstr(123456789), '123456789')
 
@@ -289,16 +289,21 @@ class _TestStrftimeYear:
         return time.strftime('%Y', (y,) + (0,) * 8).split()[-1]
 
     def test_large_year(self):
-        # Just check that it doesn't crash with year > 9999: it may or may not
-        # raise an error depending on the OS and compiler
+        # Check that it doesn't crash for year > 9999
         try:
-            self.yearstr(12345)
+            text = self.yearstr(12345)
         except ValueError:
+            # If Python is compiled with Visual Studio,
+            # year is limited to [1; 9999]
             pass
+        else:
+            self.assertEqual(text, '12345')
         try:
-            self.yearstr(123456)
+            text = self.yearstr(123456789)
         except ValueError:
             pass
+        else:
+            self.assertEqual(text, '123456789')
 
 class _Test2dYear(_BaseYearTest):
     accept2dyear = 1