We have determined that the koji builder is indeed setting the SIGHUP sigaction to SIG_IGN, which the python test is inheriting, and are working on trying to get that fixed.  However, it may be worth considering something like https://github.com/pexpect/pexpect/commit/1fbfddf33d196fd1f211fb95efdaa810b8b5dad3 in the python tests to ensure that the test run properly in situations like this (I can imagine someone running them under "nohup").