Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes: > If you poke around in the test directory a bit, you may find there is > already some code along these lines in other tests (e.g. I'm pretty > sure the urllib tests already fire up a local server). Starting down > the path of standardisation of that test functionality would be good.
I have poked around, and each test module pretty much does its own thing. Perhaps that's unavoidable; I'll try and see if there are usable common patterns in the specific instances. > For larger components like this, it's also reasonable to add a > dedicated helper module rather than using test.support directly. I > started (and Antoine improved) something along those lines with the > test.script_helper module for running Python subprocesses and checking > their output, although it lacks documentation and there are lots of > older tests that still use subprocess directly. Yes, I thought perhaps it was too specialised for adding to test.support itself. Thanks for the feedback, Vinay _______________________________________________ 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
