On 7/17/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/17/07, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How about having individual test files for the various built-ins? As > > of right now we have test_builtin, but also things like test_tuple and > > test_file without a test_chr. > > > > And then semantic stuff is all over (e.g., test_class, test_descr, > > test_binop, etc.). I would never expect a newbie to come along and > > know where to look for a semantic test. > > > > Should we make Lib/test less shallow and have like a builtins, > > language, stdlib, and capi subpackages to help organize this stuff and > > make the location of tests more obvious? That might help make it > > clearer where one should look and thus if a test for something is not > > found there it probably doesn't exist. > > Personally, I'm in favor of leaving well enough alone, and only using > the guidelines to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. But if you > want to be more ambitious as part of the stdlib reorg, eb my guest!
I would like to, but let's see if I find the time. =) -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-3000-checkins mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000-checkins
