New submission from earl.chew:
The test test_docxmlrpc.py will sometimes hang because of a timing race.
I've verified that this code is the same up to version 3.5 and master at
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/test/test_docxmlrpc.py
A proposed patch is att
earl.chew added the comment:
In the original code, the key to the failure I observed is:
# wait for port to be assigned
n = 1000
while n > 0 and PORT is None:
time.sleep(0.001)
n -= 1
This gives a fixed deadline for the server thread to cre