On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
> What are the use cases for co_firstlineno? Even if it is for > displaying the source code, I can find virtue for both sides of this > argument. nose uses co_firstlineno to determine order of the test functions and decorating a test function can change such order. To keep the ordering, it provides nose.tools.make_decorator() which explicitly keeps the line number of the original function. Check the following thread for a discussion in this regard: http://groups.google.com/group/nose-users/browse_thread/thread/3e354cbb5b1fac6/107429c5abbf2e59 Thanks, Raghu _______________________________________________ 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
