There is failure on a XP buildbot. I don't know if it is a sporadic issue or not.

http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/builders/x86%20XP-5%203.x/builds/3921/steps/test/logs/stdio

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ERROR: test_append_lzma (test.test_tarfile.AppendTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Buildslave\3.x.moore-windows\build\lib\test\test_tarfile.py", line 1539, in test_append_lzma
    self._create_testtar("w:xz")
  File "D:\Buildslave\3.x.moore-windows\build\lib\test\test_tarfile.py", line 1486, in _create_testtar
    with tarfile.open(self.tarname, mode) as tar:
  File "D:\Buildslave\3.x.moore-windows\build\lib\tarfile.py", line 1721, in open
    return func(name, filemode, fileobj, **kwargs)
  File "D:\Buildslave\3.x.moore-windows\build\lib\tarfile.py", line 1826, in xzopen
    mode=mode, fileobj=fileobj, preset=preset)
  File "D:\Buildslave\3.x.moore-windows\build\lib\lzma.py", line 117, in __init__
    preset=preset, filters=filters)
MemoryError