On Dec 10, 2007 9:59 AM, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > I'm not sure I'd bother backporting something that only affects the tests. > > > > I do think that we could do with more support for unit tests that > > create a server in a thread; there seem to be a few somewhat faulty > > patterns that have been copied over and over and then have to be fixed > > each time we think of an improvement. > > I've already discussed the matter with Georg Brandl. We think it would > be a nice task for GHOP to write a server factory for threaded server > tests. The factory could encapsulate the creation of servers, a post > creation method and a tearDown() method. I've to give some thoughts to > the necessary API and use cases. I'll shoot a mail to Python dev before > I create the GHOP issue. > > The threaded server tests are fragile and can easily lead to a dead lock > when a test fails unexpected.
Excellent. It might be helpful to point to the (as many as possible of the) test modules that could benefit from this work. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000-checkins mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000-checkins
