gh-109706: Fix multiprocessing test_nested_startmethod() (GH-109707)

vstinner · miss-islington · commit a83132f8999f · 2023-09-22T21:49:37.000Z
Don't check order, queue items can be written in any order. (cherry picked from commit b03a791) Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>
diff --git a/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py b/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
@@ -5434,7 +5434,9 @@ def test_nested_startmethod(self):
         while not queue.empty():
             results.append(queue.get())
 
-        self.assertEqual(results, [2, 1])
+        # gh-109706: queue.put(1) can write into the queue before queue.put(2),
+        # there is no synchronization in the test.
+        self.assertSetEqual(set(results), set([2, 1]))
 
 
 @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform == "win32",
