Alan Gauld wrote: > "Eric Brunson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > >> Alan Gauld wrote: >>
Glad we both noted the smileys. :-) > However, there is a bit of a serious point here too in that > users never ask for data validation (at least mine never do!) > they just expect it. So I still maintain that any test suite > no matter how basic should always cover some tests > for invalid input data. > Definitely a valid point. I just spent twenty minutes this afternoon tracking down a problem in my own code where, because I was supplying the input from a database, I could count on converting the value to a float. However, that didn't account for not finding a value at all. > Even well intentioned users will make mistakes and a program > that crashes on invalid input is not user friendly - even if the > only user is the author! > Bingo. :-) Always a pleasure, e. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
