Re: Writing tests for the Python bug tracker

2010-03-20 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Mar 20, 6:52 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I've found this: > > http://docs.python.org/library/test.html > > and I've written a small test: > > $ cat test_unicode_interpolation.py > # For testinghttp://bugs.python.org/issue8128 > > import test.test_support > import unittest > > class K(unicode):

Re: Writing tests for the Python bug tracker

2010-03-20 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Mar 20, 6:23 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I have two reported bugs in the bug tracker waiting on tests: > > http://bugs.python.org/issue8128http://bugs.python.org/issue4037 > > Are there any guidelines for writing tests for the standard library and > language? Not that I can think of, beyond t

Re: Writing tests for the Python bug tracker

2010-03-20 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:07:58 +, exarkun wrote: >>What am I doing wrong? > > Take a careful look at the stack being reported. Then, think of a > better name than "test" for your file. Doh! *face-palm* I was shadowing the test package with a long forgotten test module. -- Steven -- http:

Re: Writing tests for the Python bug tracker

2010-03-20 Thread exarkun
On 06:52 am, st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au wrote: but when I try running the test, I get an error: $ python test_unicode_interpolation.py Options: {'delimiter': None} str of options.delimiter = None repr of options.delimiter = None len of options.delimiter Traceback (most recent call las

Re: Writing tests for the Python bug tracker

2010-03-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:23:14 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Are there any guidelines for writing tests for the standard library and > language? I've googled, but found nothing useful: lots of guidelines for > writing tests, and of course I've read PEP 8, but I'm not sure if there > are convention

Writing tests for the Python bug tracker

2010-03-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
I have two reported bugs in the bug tracker waiting on tests: http://bugs.python.org/issue8128 http://bugs.python.org/issue4037 Are there any guidelines for writing tests for the standard library and language? I've googled, but found nothing useful: lots of guidelines for writing tests, and of