The __lltrace__ feature costs in maintenance; it should either be fixed or ripped out. On 4/14/07, Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan@ccpgames.com> wrote:

Hello again.

So, using __lltrace__, I stumbled over a crashbug (to which I have already submitted a fix).i

To trigger the crash, I modified lib/test/test_trace.py, lines 609 onwards:

def test_16_no_jump_into_finally_block(self):

globals()["__lltrace__"] = 1

self.run_test(no_jump_into_finally_block)

del globals()["__lltrace__"]

This would crash in all versions I tried.

Now, I wonder, is it worth it adding a regression test for the __lltrace__ functionality? I realize it is a debug feature, only availible in

debug builds, for debugging python itself, on the other hand, it had been broken for a long time and no one had noticed, hence perhaps the need for a test?

What do you think?

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The __lltrace__ feature costs in maintenance; it should either be fixed or ripped out. On 4/14/07, Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan@ccpgames.com> wrote:

Hello again.

So, using __lltrace__, I stumbled over a crashbug (to which I have already submitted a fix).i

To trigger the crash, I modified lib/test/test_trace.py, lines 609 onwards:

def test_16_no_jump_into_finally_block(self):

globals()["__lltrace__"] = 1

self.run_test(no_jump_into_finally_block)

del globals()["__lltrace__"]

This would crash in all versions I tried.

Now, I wonder, is it worth it adding a regression test for the __lltrace__ functionality? I realize it is a debug feature, only availible in

debug builds, for debugging python itself, on the other hand, it had been broken for a long time and no one had noticed, hence perhaps the need for a test?

What do you think?

Kristján _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org

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