On 10/19/07, Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In trunk after 2.5, equality and hashing for TestCase were added, changing > the behavior so that two instances of TestCase for the same test method hash > the same and compare equal. This means two instances of TestCase for the > same test method cannot be added to a single set. > > Here's the change: > > http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/unittest.py?rev=54199&r1=42115&r2=54199 > > The implementations aren't even very good, since they prevent another type > from deciding that it wants to customize comparison against TestCase (or > TestSuite, > or FunctionTestCase) instances.
The implementations have been changed in a more recent revision. > Is there a real use case for this functionality? If not, I'd like it to be > removed to restore the old behavior. The use-case was problems I encountered when writing the test suite for unittest. If you can find a way to implement the functionality you want *and* keep the test suite reasonably straightforward, I'll be happy to review your patch. Collin Winter _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
