On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 1/13/2014 7:48 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> ValueError: max() arg is an empty sequence > > > try: > > g = max(self.saved_groups) + 1 > except ValueError: > g = 1 > > > Unless someone says that it is a bug for posix.getgroups to return an empty > list, I would say that the test should be fixed by trying the code above.
I can't see anything in the getgroups man page [1] to suggest that it's a bug to return an empty list. But I can't replicate the behaviour either - not on the system Python, at least (2.7.3), hence the query about rerunning tests. Will raise an issue on the tracker. [1] eg http://linux.die.net/man/2/getgroups ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
