On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Antoine Pitrou <report@bugs.python.org>wrote:

>
> Antoine Pitrou added the comment:
>
> > Antoine, I committed your patch (with a bit of comments added),
> > *leaving the module caching in*.
>
> Thanks!
>
> > A longer term solution to all this will be
> > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-August/127766.html -
> > I want to eventually run all "monkey-patch the import environment to
> > simulate some situation" sub-tests of ET in different subprocesses to
> > they are kept independent.
>
> I find it useful that the test suite stresses module unloading or
> reloading. There's probably a bug either in ET or in the ET tests. I'm
> not saying it's a very important issue of course, but IMHO it would be
> better if we don't try to swipe it under the carpet :-)
>

I have no intention swiping things under the carpet. I'll get to the bottom
of this to understand the exact flow that causes this to happen.

But I still think ET tests should be logically separated into subprocesses.
If we want to stress test module unloading and reloading, let's have
specific, targeted tests for that.