On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 14:09 -0500, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > 2009/9/7 Frank Wierzbicki <fwierzbi...@gmail.com>: > > On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Benjamin Peterson<benja...@python.org> > > wrote: > >> 2009/9/7 Frank Wierzbicki <fwierzbi...@gmail.com>: > >>> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:38 AM, holger krekel<hol...@merlinux.eu> wrote: > >>>> * assert re-interpretation: no clue how this could work yet. > >>> What is assert re-interpretation? > >> > >> When an assert statement fails, py.test tries to provide more > >> debugging information. It does this by walking over the AST of the > >> assert statement and reinterpreting each part to determine where > >> exactly it fails. > >> > >> I'm not sure why this wouldn't work on Jython except that my > >> implementation uses the ast module, which is not found in Python 2.5. > > We actually put the ast.py in our 2.5 -- but it does have a few > > incompatibilities (for example, we don't currently allow arbitrary > > python objects in attributes -- we attempt to convert them > > immediately) > > Well, assertion reinterpretation shouldn't need to do that, so I'm not > sure why it doesn't work.
hum, i wouldn't bet that it doesn't work, actually - there were a number of failures in the (py/code) tests and i just *presumed* it wouldn't work. Maybe it works with the now fixed trunk. need to check that. best, holger _______________________________________________ py-dev mailing list py-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/py-dev
