diff -r 000000000000 -r ae805ac0140d python-2.5.2/win32/Lib/test/test_warnings.py
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/python-2.5.2/win32/Lib/test/test_warnings.py	Fri Apr 03 17:19:34 2009 +0100
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+import warnings
+import os
+import unittest
+from test import test_support
+
+# The warnings module isn't easily tested, because it relies on module
+# globals to store configuration information.  setUp() and tearDown()
+# preserve the current settings to avoid bashing them while running tests.
+
+# To capture the warning messages, a replacement for showwarning() is
+# used to save warning information in a global variable.
+
+class WarningMessage:
+    "Holds results of latest showwarning() call"
+    pass
+
+def showwarning(message, category, filename, lineno, file=None):
+    msg.message = str(message)
+    msg.category = category.__name__
+    msg.filename = os.path.basename(filename)
+    msg.lineno = lineno
+
+class TestModule(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        global msg
+        msg = WarningMessage()
+        self._filters = warnings.filters[:]
+        self._showwarning = warnings.showwarning
+        warnings.showwarning = showwarning
+        self.ignored = [w[2].__name__ for w in self._filters
+            if w[0]=='ignore' and w[1] is None and w[3] is None]
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        warnings.filters = self._filters[:]
+        warnings.showwarning = self._showwarning
+
+    def test_warn_default_category(self):
+        for i in range(4):
+            text = 'multi %d' %i    # Different text on each call
+            warnings.warn(text)
+            self.assertEqual(msg.message, text)
+            self.assertEqual(msg.category, 'UserWarning')
+
+    def test_warn_specific_category(self):
+        text = 'None'
+        for category in [DeprecationWarning, FutureWarning,
+                    PendingDeprecationWarning, RuntimeWarning,
+                    SyntaxWarning, UserWarning, Warning]:
+            if category.__name__ in self.ignored:
+                text = 'filtered out' + category.__name__
+                warnings.warn(text, category)
+                self.assertNotEqual(msg.message, text)
+            else:
+                text = 'unfiltered %s' % category.__name__
+                warnings.warn(text, category)
+                self.assertEqual(msg.message, text)
+                self.assertEqual(msg.category, category.__name__)
+
+    def test_filtering(self):
+
+        warnings.filterwarnings("error", "", Warning, "", 0)
+        self.assertRaises(UserWarning, warnings.warn, 'convert to error')
+
+        warnings.resetwarnings()
+        text = 'handle normally'
+        warnings.warn(text)
+        self.assertEqual(msg.message, text)
+        self.assertEqual(msg.category, 'UserWarning')
+
+        warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", "", Warning, "", 0)
+        text = 'filtered out'
+        warnings.warn(text)
+        self.assertNotEqual(msg.message, text)
+
+        warnings.resetwarnings()
+        warnings.filterwarnings("error", "hex*", Warning, "", 0)
+        self.assertRaises(UserWarning, warnings.warn, 'hex/oct')
+        text = 'nonmatching text'
+        warnings.warn(text)
+        self.assertEqual(msg.message, text)
+        self.assertEqual(msg.category, 'UserWarning')
+
+    def test_options(self):
+        # Uses the private _setoption() function to test the parsing
+        # of command-line warning arguments
+        self.assertRaises(warnings._OptionError,
+                          warnings._setoption, '1:2:3:4:5:6')
+        self.assertRaises(warnings._OptionError,
+                          warnings._setoption, 'bogus::Warning')
+        self.assertRaises(warnings._OptionError,
+                          warnings._setoption, 'ignore:2::4:-5')
+        warnings._setoption('error::Warning::0')
+        self.assertRaises(UserWarning, warnings.warn, 'convert to error')
+
+
+def test_main(verbose=None):
+    # Obscure hack so that this test passes after reloads or repeated calls
+    # to test_main (regrtest -R).
+    if '__warningregistry__' in globals():
+        del globals()['__warningregistry__']
+    test_support.run_unittest(TestModule)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    test_main(verbose=True)