When running test_mmap on a partition with < 4GB free, it back-traced:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/test/test_mmap.py", line 728, in _make_test_file
    f.flush()
OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/test/test_mmap.py", line 735, in test_large_offset
    with self._make_test_file(0x14FFFFFFF, b" ") as f:
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/test/test_mmap.py", line 730, in _make_test_file
    f.close()
OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device

but by wrapping the f.close() inside another try/except block, its failure was caught and the test was able to complete, resulting in a skip for this sub-test and an OK for the overall test.

Patch looks good to me. Anything that fails flush() is likely to also fail close(). But I cannot reproduce the actual failure. Perhaps it requires a file system like FAT that doesn’t support “holes” in files.

New changeset 7a9dddc11f2e by Martin Panter <vadmium> in branch '3.4':
Issue #25004: Handle out-of-disk-space error in LargeMmapTests
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/7a9dddc11f2e

New changeset fd4bf05b32ba by Martin Panter <vadmium> in branch '3.5':
Issue #25004: Merge 3.4 into 3.5
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/fd4bf05b32ba

New changeset 6c9159661aa8 by Martin Panter <vadmium> in branch 'default':
Issue #25004: Merge 3.5 into 3.6
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6c9159661aa8

Okay I was able to force the error by using all my disk space up, and confirmed the change works.