Issue 36160: Multiple errors in test_site.py on sysconfig._CONFIG_VARS.clear() if run on its own
Sample failure:
> cpython\branches\3.7>python.bat -m test.test_site
Running Debug|x64 interpreter...
EEEEEEEEEEEEE.s.............
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ERROR: test_addpackage (__main__.HelperFunctionsTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Sasha\Documents\cpython\branches\3.7\lib\test\test_site.py", li
ne 77, in tearDown
sysconfig._CONFIG_VARS.clear()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'clear'
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ERROR: test_addpackage_import_bad_exec (__main__.HelperFunctionsTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Sasha\Documents\cpython\branches\3.7\lib\test\test_site.py", li
ne 77, in tearDown
sysconfig._CONFIG_VARS.clear()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'clear'
<etc>
The reason is that `sysconfig._CONFIG_VARS' is None until the first call to `sysconfig.get_config_vars()'. When the suite is used in conjunction with the others, other tests have already called it by the time test_site.py gets control.