[Mailman-Developers] (no subject)

[arnaud.le-roy at voila.fr]

Hi Barry, 

Happy to confirm that it helps. These convenience functions ease the discovery for first time players, so
from this point of view this is an added benefit of your trade-off.

Thanks, 
Arnaud      


> Message du 07/06/11 à 21h57
> De : "Barry Warsaw" <barry at list.org>
> A : mailman-developers at python.org
> Copie à : arnaud.le-roy at voila.fr
> Objet : Re: [Mailman-Developers] (no subject)
> 
> Hi Arnaud,
> 
> On Jun 07, 2011, at 11:55 AM, arnaud.le-roy at voila.fr wrote:
> 
> >I've just installed mailman 3 : as my goal is to use it with the REST
> >interface or custom scripts, I'd like to get a good grasp of how it is
> >working. So, I'm trying to use it in interactive mode as in the package
> >documentation. However, I'm not sure of the best way to be in the same
> >context as in the documentation examples. At first I tried the "py" script
> >under bin, but everything is not initialised (eg I have component not found
> >errors for getUtility). Then I tried with mailman withlist. It works better
> >now but I now see the dump_list function in the examples and I had to import
> >it manually. So my question is : what is the context of the examples and how
> >can I set it up ? Or are they all "ad hoc" with no general way to be in the
> >same state ?
> 
> You're pretty close, actually.  The documentation does assume a slightly
> crafted global namespace, which you can see in
> src/mailman/tests/test_documentation.py.  Look in the setup() function.  I've
> tried to keep these 'magic test gobals' to a minimum, but some are just too
> darn convenient.
> 
> You're right that bin/py does not initialize the system.  That's exactly what
> `bin/mailman withlist` does though.  As you've seen, you will have to manually
> import certain names though, exactly the ones that test_documentation.py puts
> in the doctest globals.  It should be fairly obvious from looking at that file
> what you'll need and where to get it from.
> 
> The other tricky bit about the test suite is that you might need to take into
> account the "layer" feature of zope.testing.  You'll find all the testing
> layers in src/mailman/testing/layers.py and for doctests, some package
> __init__.py files have a `layer` global that defines the layer for doctests in
> that package.  See for example src/mailman/rest/docs/__init__.py.
> 
> I hope that helps.
> -Barry
> >
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