$ ./python -m test -uall test_idle test_code_module
Run tests sequentially
0:00:00 load avg: 0.42 [1/2] test_idle
0:00:02 load avg: 0.42 [2/2] test_code_module
test test_code_module failed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython/Lib/test/test_code_module.py", line 35, in test_ps1
    self.assertEqual(self.sysmod.ps1, '>>> ')
AssertionError: <MagicMock name='sys.ps1' id='140109331413008'> != '>>> '

test_code_module failed
1 test OK.

1 test failed:
test_code_module

Total duration: 2 sec
Tests result: FAILURE

Running test_code_module afte test_idle, which somewhere executes idle code that sets sys.ps1, exposed a deficiency in test_code_module.

TestInteractiveConsole.test_ps1 is intended to test this code in InteractiveConsole.interact.

        try:
            sys.ps1
        except AttributeError:
            sys.ps1 = ">>> "

The existing test only tried to test the except branch, but without insuring that the AttributeError occurs. PR 4070 fixes that and adds a test of the try branch, that sys.ps1 is respected and left alone (and later used as it) when present. Ditto for test_ps2.

On the PR, Serhiy asks "Wouldn't be better to restore sys.ps1 in test_idle if it is changed here?"

Aside from the fact that, as far as I know, it is not sanely possible to do so, I think it a bug for a test to be unnecessarily fragile. Both ps1 and ps2 are set when Python is in interactive mode. IDLE is only (partially) imitating Python's shell when it sets sys.ps1.

The premise of python/cpython#69774 is that tests should accommodate sys.stdout and sys.stderr being None to the extent possible.  I think the same applies to sys.ps1/2 being set.  Indeed, as I reported on python/cpython#75942, in msg304298, 9 days ago, test_code_module tests test_ps1 and test_ps2 failed when I ran '>>> import test.autotest' in a *Python* shell.  I did not understand the reason for the failures then, but if I had investigated, I should hope that I would have submitted the same PR, which fixes this autotest failure.

New changeset 5a4bbcd by Terry Jan Reedy in branch 'master':
bpo-31836: Test_code_module now passes with sys.ps1, ps2 set (bpo-4070)
5a4bbcd

New changeset 8ed5644 by Terry Jan Reedy (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.6':
bpo-31836: Test_code_module now passes with sys.ps1, ps2 set (GH-4070) (bpo-4156)
8ed5644