On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 13:57, Eric Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote: > On 12/07/2010 03:26 PM, Vinay Sajip wrote: >> >> I would suggest that when unit testing, rather than adding StreamHandlers >> to log >> to stderr, that something like TestHandler and Matcher from this post: >> >> http://plumberjack.blogspot.com/2010/09/unit-testing-and-logging.html >> >> This will allow assertion checking of logged messages without resorting to >> StringIO, getvalue() etc. If people think it's a good idea, I can add the >> TestHandler/Matcher classes to the unit test infrastructure (they wouldn't >> become part of the public API, at least until 3.3, but I presume they >> could be >> used in the stdlib unit tests). > > Wouldn't it make more sense to add these to test.support? I don't think we > make any guarantees about its API being stable, although I have a faint > recollection of that being debated in the past.
We make no guarantees. The debate was whether we accidentally painted ourselves into a corner by documenting the module a tad for core developer's benefit. The warning has been made much more explicit in the docs that test.support is not meant for outside usage. _______________________________________________ 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
