I've spent a few months (on and mostly off) trying to get my C++/FLTK program, FamilyRelationsII, to build on my MacBook for both old and new Macs.
I was helped immensely by Mando Rodriguez and Diane Trout, both of whom contributed various snippets. Getting it all to play nice …
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After an innocent question was answered positively, I am putting together a patch to deprecate the commands module in favor of a slightly expanded subprocess module (for 2.6).
Briefly, the idea is to add three new functions to subprocess:
output = get_output(cmd, input=None, cwd=None, env=None): (status …read more
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From reading Collin Winter's blog he's designing a new unittest module first, and then he's going to ask c.l.p and presumably python-dev about adding it to py3k. So it's not quite the fait accompli I thought it was, which reduces my complaints to mild grumbling.
And, dear lazyweb …
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For my own future reference, as well as to attract people to the fairly high signal testing-in-python mailing list, here are some particularly interesting posts to the TIP list.
Raphael Marvie implements a simple textual specification -> test suite generator.
Kumar McMillan makes some nice suggestions for Michal's "spec" nose plugin …
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I've put together a brief discussion, with links to the source code, surrounding the demos I did at PyCon '07 during my testing tools talk. Here's a brief TOC:
# Demo 1: Testing CherryPy # Demo 2: Testing CherryPy without exec'ing a process # Demo 3: Basic code coverage analysis with figleaf # Demo …read more
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Michal Kwiatkowski and I just released pinocchio 0.1, a collection of plugins for nose. It's got my figleaf section recording plugin, figleafsections, and it's also got Michal's spec plugin, which lets you write tests like this:
class TestFoobar:
def test_is_a_singleton(self):
pass
def test_can_be_automatically_documented(self):
pass
which, during the …
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OK, this is one thing I love about Python -- in my entry on "five things I hate about Python" (which achieved "entry worth bashing" status on reddit; go provocative titles!), I complained about the difficulty in getting patches submitted.
AMK read this and posted about it to the python-dev mailing …
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