Issue 6292: for the moment at least, the test suite passes if run

with -OO.  Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.  Patch by
Brian Curtin, thanks to Matias Torchinsky for helping review and
improve the patch.

Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py

@@ -505,6 +505,8 @@ class SimpleServerTestCase(BaseServerTestCase):
                 # protocol error; provide additional information in test output
                 self.fail("%s\n%s" % (e, getattr(e, "headers", "")))
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(sys.flags.optimize >= 2,
+                     "Docstrings are omitted with -O2 and above")
     def test_introspection3(self):
         try:
             # test native doc