[issue20484] test_pydoc can alter execution environment causing subsequent test failures

Eric Snow added the comment: Sorry for the delay. It will likely be tomorrow before I can take a look but I'll do so as soon as possible. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue20484] test_pydoc can alter execution environment causing subsequent test failures

Ned Deily added the comment: Eric, can you take a look at this? It is playing minor havoc with regression testing for 3.4.0. -- nosy: +larry ___ Python tracker ___

[issue20484] test_pydoc can alter execution environment causing subsequent test failures

Ned Deily added the comment: Here's another example of an odd test failure apparently caused by test_pydoc side effects, this using current default tip (same results with the current cherry pick for 3.4.0rc2): ./bin/python3.4 -m test -w -uall,-largefile test_pydoc test_unicode [1/2] test_pydoc

[issue20484] test_pydoc can alter execution environment causing subsequent test failures

New submission from Ned Deily: With the "pydoc.synopsis() for 'binary' modules" changes (d6c3fb8d5f84) to pydoc and test_pydoc for Issue20123, running test_pydoc can leave the regrtest environment altered and cause subsequent tests to fail in strange ways. I ran into this issue running regres