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  r62090 | brett.cannon | 2008-04-01 07:37:43 -0500 (Tue, 01 Apr 2008) | 3 lines

  Generalize test.test_support.test_stdout() with a base context manager so that
  it is easy to capture stderr if desired.
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  r62091 | brett.cannon | 2008-04-01 07:46:02 -0500 (Tue, 01 Apr 2008) | 3 lines

  Add ``if __name__ == '__main__'`` to some test files where it didn't take a lot
  of effort to do so.
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  r62096 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-04-01 17:52:48 -0500 (Tue, 01 Apr 2008) | 4 lines

  Newly enabled test appears to leak:
  it registers the same codec on each iteration.
  Do it only once at load time.
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  r62100 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-04-01 19:55:04 -0500 (Tue, 01 Apr 2008) | 4 lines

  A DocTestSuite cannot run multiple times: it clears its globals dictionary after the first run.

  Rebuild the DocTestSuite on each iteration.
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  r62102 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-04-01 23:07:44 -0500 (Tue, 01 Apr 2008) | 3 lines

  Try to make test_signal less flaky.  I still see some flakiness in
  test_itimer_prof.
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  r62110 | vinay.sajip | 2008-04-02 16:09:27 -0500 (Wed, 02 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Fix: #2315, #2316, #2317: TimedRotatingFileHandler - changed logic to better handle daylight savings time, deletion of old log files, and fixed a bug in calculating rollover when no logging occurs for a longer interval than the rollover period.
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  r62111 | vinay.sajip | 2008-04-02 16:10:23 -0500 (Wed, 02 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Added updates with respect to recent changes to TimedRotatingFileHandler.
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  r62112 | vinay.sajip | 2008-04-02 16:17:25 -0500 (Wed, 02 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Added updates with respect to recent changes to TimedRotatingFileHandler.
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  r62113 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-04-02 16:18:46 -0500 (Wed, 02 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Remove debug prints; the buildbot now passes the tests
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  r62114 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-04-02 16:20:35 -0500 (Wed, 02 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Suggested proposed changes to Python be considered on some mailing lists first
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_support.py b/Lib/test/test_support.py
index f9ed396af7..d2be9bf0bb 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_support.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_support.py
@@ -381,19 +381,23 @@ def transient_internet():
 
 
 @contextlib.contextmanager
-def captured_stdout():
-    """Run the with statement body using a StringIO object as sys.stdout.
-    Example use::
+def captured_output(stream_name):
+    """Run the 'with' statement body using a StringIO object in place of a
+    specific attribute on the sys module.
+    Example use (with 'stream_name=stdout')::
 
        with captured_stdout() as s:
            print "hello"
        assert s.getvalue() == "hello"
     """
     import io
-    orig_stdout = sys.stdout
-    sys.stdout = io.StringIO()
-    yield sys.stdout
-    sys.stdout = orig_stdout
+    orig_stdout = getattr(sys, stream_name)
+    setattr(sys, stream_name, io.StringIO())
+    yield getattr(sys, stream_name)
+    setattr(sys, stream_name, orig_stdout)
+
+def captured_stdout():
+    return captured_output("stdout")
 
 
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