Changeset d3c7ebdc71bb produced the following test failure on one of the stable buildbots:


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FAIL: test_noserver (test.test_logging.SocketHandlerTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\buildbot.python.org\3.x.kloth-win64\build\lib\test\test_logging.py", line 1453, in test_noserver
    self.assertTrue(self.sock_hdlr.retryTime > now)
AssertionError: False is not true

See http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/AMD64%20Windows7%20SP1%203.x

New changeset 240fa6e93925 by Giampaolo Rodola' in branch 'default':
test_logging.py: where needed use unittest's assertGreater, assertLesser, assertIs rather than assertTrue (also in order to debug issue 16264)
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/240fa6e93925

Committed http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/240fa6e93925 in order to have a clearer look on what's going on.
Will get back on this later today, after the next bb failure.

New changeset 0fb2267897ba by Antoine Pitrou in branch 'default':
Try to fix issue #16264 (test_logging failure on some buildbots).
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/0fb2267897ba

Looks ok now. It's a timing glitch because both SocketHandler's built-in timeout and its default retry delay are one second, so when connect times out once the next retry time is a bit behind time.time().

(note: SocketHandler's implementation looks grotesque. Enough said).

> (note: SocketHandler's implementation looks grotesque. Enough said).

Care to be a little more constructive in your criticism? I'm quite open to improving it, if you have any suggestions for doing so. It's a very basic exponential back-off approach - the only intent was not to keep trying to frequently connect to a server which might be offline or unreachable.