It's almost certainly related to this entry in Misc/NEWS: - Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. Among other things, this causes errors besides AttributeError found on lookup to be propagated.
and this log entry: changeset: 70312:b2fc6b9f850f branch: 2.7 parent: 70304:9d004a9a2ced user: Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> date: Mon May 23 16:11:05 2011 -0500 files: Lib/test/test_descr.py Misc/NEWS Objects/object.c description: correctly lookup __dir__ As there's no issue number to link this to the Python tracker, I need to as Benjamin why this change was made and whether it's really appropriate for an rc, let alone a patch release. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/791221 Title: Nova's test suite fails with python 2.7.2rc1 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
