Éric Araujo added the comment: FWIW I have no principled opinion about big vs. small test.support module, as this is purely internal code.
The reasons for this proposal as I understand them are: - One module for script helpers, one module for package creation, etc. are not bad. - We don’t really want to spend time and thought cleaning up test.support, but it be good to stop adding to the mess. - Making it easier to find that some function already exists (e.g. script helpers weren’t known by all core devs) would be good. ISTM that moving support.py to support/__init__.py and moving script_helper.py and friends to support/*.py is a quick and efficient way to address these points and make our lives a little easier: - Script helpers, package helpers, etc. continue to be in their own file. - Time is not lost trying to do an upfront cleanup of test.support. - Developers looking at the test.support package are more likely to have a look at the dosctrings of the other helper modules than they do currently, and thus don’t reinvent the same helpers. ---------- nosy: +eric.araujo _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15494> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
