On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:24:25PM +0000, Antoine Pitrou wrote: -> Rather than performance, I think some more interesting areas would be related to -> some of the standard library modules. For instance, the unittest module could -> welcome some new features (test discovery, support for skipped tests, probably -> others that I'm forgetting about). Since this is pure Python stuff not needing -> any deep experience with the interpreter's internals, it would be appropriate -> for an outsider.
Hi Antoine,
interesting idea -- but I've seen too many arguments about what the *right* functionality to add to unittest would be to want to give it to a student. I think a student would probably not be willing or able to fight the battles necessary to get his/her changes into the core...
cheers, --titus