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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/test_unicode.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py index 5d887ed92f..70e4787b0a 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py @@ -1118,7 +1118,10 @@ class UnicodeTest( # when a string allocation fails with a MemoryError. # This used to crash the interpreter, # or leak references when the number was smaller. - alloc = lambda: u"a" * (sys.maxsize - 100) + charwidth = 4 if sys.maxunicode >= 0x10000 else 2 + # Note: sys.maxsize is half of the actual max allocation because of + # the signedness of Py_ssize_t. + alloc = lambda: u"a" * (sys.maxsize // charwidth * 2) self.assertRaises(MemoryError, alloc) self.assertRaises(MemoryError, alloc) |