On 4/11/06, Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/04/06 Michael Chermside said: > > > There's a related change that I would love to see. Currently, we > > have a large number of unit tests, but we have made no attempt to > > distinguish between python language tests, and CPython implementation > > tests. If we made such a distinction, then PyPy, Jython, Iron Python, > > and perhaps others would benefit. Python 3000 might be a good time > > to introduce the distinction.
I agree that such a test suite would be helpful. I don't think it should wait for Python 3000. > I for one would love to see a simple test that can be run to verify compliance > to the Python language standard, if such a thing exists, to help prevent > Jython, IronPython and similar efforts from diverging and causing a > Lisp/Scheme kind of schism in Python. I'm not worried about that. In fact, PyPy has contributed much to the existing test suite, and we could probably get Jim Hugunin to give us some hints on tests that are CPython specific. > Alarmist perhaps, but it would still be a nice test suite to have. Yes, nice to have. No, no reason for alarm. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
