[soc2008-general] unit testing the standard library

[Brett Cannon]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Filippo Giunchedi
<fgiunchedi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Titus,
>  thanks for your quick reply.
>
>  On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 09:16:14AM -0700, Titus Brown wrote:
>  > Hi, Filippo,
>  >
>  > quite a bit work was done on this during the GHOP project, but that's
>  > not to say there's not a lot of work still to be done!
>  >
>  > See
>  >
>  > http://sayspy.blogspot.com/2007/12/ghop-is-working-out-well-and-i-need-to.html
>  >
>  > for some good ideas.
>
>  From the above list and looking at today's trunk it is my understanding that the
>  old style (output-comparison) tests are gone, is that correct?
>

Yep. They disappeared at PyCon this year.

>  Following the same list, what is the status of the other items? Like black/white
>  box testing for other implementations and reorganization of regrtest.py to move
>  more information inside the tests ?
>

Beyond being ideas in my head I have discussed with some people, they
have not gone anywhere. =)

-Brett