Ben Finney wrote: > Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Ben Finney wrote: >>> What it doesn't allow is for the testing of the 'if __name__ == >>> "__main__":' clause itself. No matter how simple we make that, >>> it's still functional code that can contain errors, be they >>> obvious or subtle; yet it's code that *can't* be touched by the >>> unit test (by design, it doesn't execute when the module is >>> imported), leading to errors that won't be caught as early or >>> easily as they might. >> You could always use runpy.run_module. > > For values of "always" that include Python 2.5, of course. (I'm still > coding to Python 2.4, until 2.5 is more widespread.) > > Thanks! I was unaware of that module. It does seem to nicely address > the issue I discussed.
You might try the runpy module as-is with Python 2.4. I don't know if it works, but it's pure Python so it's worth a try. STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
