-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 4/14/2011 1:23 AM, Martin (gzlist) wrote: > On 07/04/2011, Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> wrote: >> On 07/04/2011 20:18, Robert Collins wrote: >>> >>> Testtools did something to address this problem, but I forget what it >>> was offhand. > > Some issues were worked around, but I don't remember any comprehensive > solution. > >> The proposed "fix" is to make test suite runs destructive, either >> replacing TestCase instances with None or pop'ing tests after they are >> run (the latter being what twisted Trial does). run-in-a-loop helpers >> could still repeatedly iterate over suites, just not call the suite. > > Just pop-ing is unlikely to be sufficient in practice. The Bazaar test > suite (which uses testtools nowadays) has code that pops during the > run, but still keeps every case alive for the duration. That trebles > the runtime on my memory-constrained box unless I add a hack that > clears the __dict__ of every testcase after it's run. > > Martin
I think we would be ok with merging the __dict__ clearing as long as it doesn't do it for failed tests, etc. John =:-> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2m1oAACgkQJdeBCYSNAAPHmwCfQSNW8Pk7V7qx6Jl/gYthFVxE p0cAn0XRvRR+Rqb+yiJnaVEzUOBdwOpf =19YJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
