remove python test cases

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diff --git a/sys/lib/python/test/test_popen.py b/sys/lib/python/test/test_popen.py
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--- a/sys/lib/python/test/test_popen.py
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-#! /usr/bin/env python
-"""Basic tests for os.popen()
-
-  Particularly useful for platforms that fake popen.
-"""
-
-import os
-import sys
-from test.test_support import TestSkipped, reap_children
-from os import popen
-
-# Test that command-lines get down as we expect.
-# To do this we execute:
-#    python -c "import sys;print sys.argv" {rest_of_commandline}
-# This results in Python being spawned and printing the sys.argv list.
-# We can then eval() the result of this, and see what each argv was.
-python = sys.executable
-if ' ' in python:
-    python = '"' + python + '"'     # quote embedded space for cmdline
-def _do_test_commandline(cmdline, expected):
-    cmd = '%s -c "import sys;print sys.argv" %s' % (python, cmdline)
-    data = popen(cmd).read()
-    got = eval(data)[1:] # strip off argv[0]
-    if got != expected:
-        print "Error in popen commandline handling."
-        print " executed '%s', expected '%r', but got '%r'" \
-                                                    % (cmdline, expected, got)
-
-def _test_commandline():
-    _do_test_commandline("foo bar", ["foo", "bar"])
-    _do_test_commandline('foo "spam and eggs" "silly walk"', ["foo", "spam and eggs", "silly walk"])
-    _do_test_commandline('foo "a \\"quoted\\" arg" bar', ["foo", 'a "quoted" arg', "bar"])
-    print "popen seemed to process the command-line correctly"
-
-def main():
-    print "Test popen:"
-    _test_commandline()
-    reap_children()
-
-main()