[1.11.x] Fixed #27890 -- Fixed FileNotFoundError cleanup exception in runtests.py on Python 3.6+.

Backport of 0c6c859d4edf6e462d000da21b4fa5009cb2696f from master

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/runtests.py b/tests/runtests.py
index dbd13e3d0f..6eaddbc3c5 100755
--- a/tests/runtests.py
+++ b/tests/runtests.py
@@ -233,6 +233,12 @@ def teardown(state):
     # Restore the old settings.
     for key, value in state.items():
         setattr(settings, key, value)
+    # Discard the multiprocessing.util finalizer that tries to remove a
+    # temporary directory that's already removed by this script's
+    # atexit.register(shutil.rmtree, TMPDIR) handler. Prevents
+    # FileNotFoundError at the end of a test run on Python 3.6+ (#27890).
+    from multiprocessing.util import _finalizer_registry
+    _finalizer_registry.pop((-100, 0), None)
 
 
 def actual_test_processes(parallel):