From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 20:24:08 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Update tests and whatsnew for the 'quiet' flag
X-Git-Tag: v3.2rc1~173
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7d967712b8cc35b4cc33c1a7be14ddc9baba2c97;p=python

Update tests and whatsnew for the 'quiet' flag
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
index 51ebcd234b..4ba871ef50 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
@@ -383,7 +383,14 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
   (Suggested by Mark Dickinson and implemented by Eric Smith in :issue:`7094`.)
 
 * The interpreter can now be started with a quiet option, ``-q``, to suppress
-  the copyright and version information in an interactive mode.
+  the copyright and version information in an interactive mode.  The option can
+  be introspected using the :attr:`sys.flags` attribute::
+
+    $ python -q
+    >>> sys.flags
+    sys.flags(debug=0, division_warning=0, inspect=0, interactive=0,
+    optimize=0, dont_write_bytecode=0, no_user_site=0, no_site=0,
+    ignore_environment=0, verbose=0, bytes_warning=0, quiet=1)
 
   (Contributed by Marcin Wojdyr in issue:`1772833`).
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sys.py b/Lib/test/test_sys.py
index 92b7c42806..50f0e9381b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sys.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sys.py
@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ class SysModuleTest(unittest.TestCase):
         attrs = ("debug", "division_warning",
                  "inspect", "interactive", "optimize", "dont_write_bytecode",
                  "no_user_site", "no_site", "ignore_environment", "verbose",
-                 "bytes_warning")
+                 "bytes_warning", "quiet")
         for attr in attrs:
             self.assertTrue(hasattr(sys.flags, attr), attr)
             self.assertEqual(type(getattr(sys.flags, attr)), int, attr)