bpo-30064: Fix unstable asyncio "racing" socket tests (GH-20485)

miss-islington · vstinner · web-flow · commit 1d82f0036788 · 2020-05-28T07:28:17.000-07:00
Skip new "racing" socket tests which fail randomly until someone fix them, to ease analysis of buildbot failures (skip tests which are known to be broken/unstable). (cherry picked from commit 84ee7e1) Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_sock_lowlevel.py b/Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_sock_lowlevel.py
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 import time
 import asyncio
 import sys
+import unittest
+
 from asyncio import proactor_events
 from itertools import cycle, islice
 from test.test_asyncio import utils as test_utils
@@ -232,6 +234,8 @@ async def _basetest_sock_connect_racing(self, listener, sock):
                 # avoid touching event loop to maintain race condition
                 time.sleep(0.01)
 
+    # FIXME: https://bugs.python.org/issue30064#msg370143
+    @unittest.skipIf(True, "unstable test")
     def test_sock_client_racing(self):
         with test_utils.run_test_server() as httpd:
             sock = socket.socket()
