Martin Panter added the comment:
I discovered a way to trigger the test_strptime failure. In 3.6, if I rename
the CacheTests class to ZCacheTests in in test_strptime.py, it seems to stop it
running before the StrptimeTests class. Then you can trigger the failure it
with:
./python -m test -u all -v test_{urllibnet,imaplib,strptime}
1. test_urllibnet loads the _strptime module and initializes the cache with the
normal timezone info
2. test_imaplib temporarily sets TZ=STD-1DST, triggering the glibc bug
3. test_strptime tries parsing "STD" using the original time zone settings and
fails
You have to stop CacheTests running before step 3, because it resets the
_strptime cache.
Anyway, I am now fairly confident my patch will avoid the test_strptime failure
as well, so I think it is worthwhile committing it. But I guess a bug should be
reported to the glibc people too.
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