Hi! I've written the following cool module to help with unit testing and other beasts. I really want to check it in, but I want to make sure I don't offend anyone's sensibilities. For me, this name is both natural and descriptive, but... (it already found two bugs in the SMTP module, by the way)

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buffer = '' shouldLose = 0 log = '' def __init__(self, target): self.target = target def write(self, data): print "writing", `data` self.buffer = self.buffer + data def clearBuffer(self): try: self.target.dataReceived(self.buffer) finally: self.buffer = '' if self.shouldLose: self.target.connectionLost() def loseConnection(self): self.shouldLose = 1 def masturbate(server, client): serverToClient = MasturbatoryRelay(client) clientToServer = MasturbatoryRelay(server) server.makeConnection(serverToClient) client.makeConnection(clientToServer) while 1: serverToClient.clearBuffer() clientToServer.clearBuffer() if serverToClient.shouldLose or clientToServer.shouldLose: break return clientToServer.log

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