Greg Ward added the comment:
As suggested in http://bugs.python.org/issue14120, I installed libgdbm-dev,
re-configured, and re-compiled. That fixes the problem.
IMHO that's not good enough: if we're missing a dependency, then either
configuring or building should fail. It's nice that the test
Greg Ward added the comment:
Forgot to mention: I'm running:
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release:16.04
Codename: xenial
with
$ dpkg-query -W | grep dbm
libgdbm3:amd64 1.8.3-13.1
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New submission from Greg Ward:
test_dbm.py fails reliably for me in 3.6, but in 3.5 it passes ~80% of the
time. The failure in both cases is KeyError: b'0', which has come up previously
in http://bugs.python.org/issue20094 and http://bugs.python.org/issue14120.
But since we've switched from
