> As for the windows failures, my apologies.  I knew I would need to check windows after the commit when I wrote the code, but I forgot to actually do it.

No problem, it's so easy to forget Windows :-) And we have buildbots
for this task (detect regressions).

2013/6/25 R. David Murray <report@bugs.python.org>:
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> R. David Murray added the comment:
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> It is implemented as a doctest because everything else in that test module is implemented as a doctest.  And clearly this reveals a bug of some sort.  Perhaps the dummy trick needs to be done by doctest itself?  (I will need to read your post over more carefully and understand the issue better.)
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> As for the windows failures, my apologies.  I knew I would need to check windows after the commit when I wrote the code, but I forgot to actually do it.
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