I'm in the early throes of building tests into my Cartwheel project. Cartwheel was one of the two projects that inspired my Web testing project, twill, so naturally I'm happy to finally be putting twill to good use in my own projects. Naturally the transition from building tools for building …
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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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