[Sqlalchemy-tickets] Issue #3144: failure of test testmeta in test.sql.test_types in release 0.9.7 (zzzeek/sqlalchemy)

[idella5 <iss...@bi...>]

New issue 3144: failure of test testmeta in test.sql.test_types in release 0.9.7
https://bitbucket.org/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/issue/3144/failure-of-test-testmeta-in

idella5:

This single failure occurs under pythons 2.7 3.2, 3.3 3.4 * pypy. Here is the traceback under pypy;

```python

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ERROR: test.sql.test_types.PickleMetadataTest.testmeta
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/pypy/site-packages/nose/case.py", line 197, in runTest
    self.test(*self.arg)
  File "/mnt/gen2/TmpDir/portage/dev-python/sqlalchemy-0.9.7/work/SQLAlchemy-0.9.7-pypy/test/sql/test_types.py", line 260, in testmeta
    loads(dumps(column_type))
  File "/usr/lib64/pypy/lib_pypy/cPickle.py", line 600, in loads
    return Unpickler(f).load()
  File "/usr/lib64/pypy/lib_pypy/cPickle.py", line 170, in load
    self.dispatch[key](self)
  File "/usr/lib64/pypy/lib_pypy/cPickle.py", line 439, in load_reduce
    value = self.stack[-1](*args)
TypeError: __new__() takes exactly 2 arguments (3 given)

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Ran 5926 tests in 705.219s

FAILED (SKIP=221, errors=1)
```

and under py3.4;

```python

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ERROR: test.sql.test_types.PickleMetadataTest.testmeta
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/nose/case.py", line 198, in runTest
    self.test(*self.arg)
  File "/mnt/gen2/TmpDir/portage/dev-python/sqlalchemy-0.9.7/work/SQLAlchemy-0.9.7-python3_4/test/sql/test_types.py", line 260, in testmeta
    loads(dumps(column_type))
TypeError: __new__() takes 2 positional arguments but 3 were given

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Ran 5960 tests in 162.581s

FAILED (SKIP=193, errors=1)
```

errors=1 out of 5960 tests is a fine job any day of the week.   The no. or args appears a triviality.  Do you require anything further

Responsible: zzzeek