> > 2. Some functions like unlink and rmtree are obviously redundant, and > shadow > > frequently used Python stdlib functions, so I would either kill them > > completely or at least rename them appropriately. > > But they aren't redundant, since the test.support versions ignore > errors. >
As I mentioned elsewhere, it's not good practice to have two functions with the same name doing something slightly different, in different modules in the code-base. > > Perhaps what we could do is move the documentation for test.support to > the devguide, and then vet the test suite so that unlink and friends > are always called as 'support.unlink', etc. > > Moving the documentation to the devguide is a good compromise between not documenting them at all and placing the documentation in a user-visible location. What do you mean by vetting the test suite so that unlink is always taken from test.support? I suppose some tests would specifically want the original unlink's functionality. In fact, at least a few tests use os.unlink exlicitly. Eli
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