On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 6:39 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Michael Foord > <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> wrote: >> >> On 24 Nov 2011, at 04:06, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: >>>> Mea culpa for not keeping track, but what's the status of PEP 380? I >>>> really want this in Python 3.3! >>> >>> There are two relevant tracker issues (both with me for the moment). >>> >>> The main tracker issue for PEP 380 is here: >>> http://bugs.python.org/issue11682 >>> >>> That's really just missing the doc updates - I haven't had a chance to >>> look at Zbyszek's latest offering on that front, but it shouldn't be >>> far off being complete (the *text* in his previous docs patch actually >>> seemed reasonable - I mainly objected to way it was organised). >>> >>> However, the PEP 380 test suite updates have a dependency on a new dis >>> module feature that provides an iterator over a structured description >>> of bytecode instructions: http://bugs.python.org/issue11816 >> >> >> Is it necessary to test parts of PEP 380 through bytecode structures rather >> than semantics? Those tests aren't going to be usable by other >> implementations. > > The affected tests aren't testing the PEP 380 semantics, they're > specifically testing CPython's bytecode generation for yield from > expressions and disassembly of same. Just because they aren't of any > interest to other implementations doesn't mean *we* don't need them :) > > There are plenty of behavioural tests to go along with the bytecode > specific ones, and those *will* be useful to other implementations. > > Cheers, > Nick. >
I'm with nick on this one, seems like a very useful test, just remember to mark it as @impl_detail (or however the decorator is called). Cheers, fijal _______________________________________________ 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
