[issue23977] Enhancing IDLE's test_delegator.py unit test

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 6bc08af57813 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '3.5': Issue #23977: Tweak IDLE Delegator and its test. https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6bc08af57813 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue23977] Enhancing IDLE's test_delegator.py unit test

Changes by Terry J. Reedy : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue23977] Enhancing IDLE's test_delegator.py unit test

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The patch adds too much. Some of the comments are too obvious. See PEP 8. Many of the messages repeat the information already provided in the custom messages already provided by the assertXyz failure methods. For instance, when assertEqual(a, b) fails,

[issue23977] Enhancing IDLE's test_delegator.py unit test

New submission from Al Sweigart: As part of trying to understand the IDLE codebase, I'm taking a look at IDLE's unit tests. -Added more specific messages when test_delegator.py's assertions fail. -Added detail to the comments. -Added an explicit test of the resetcache() method (which before