[pypy-dev] Re: Test suite for basic types

[Michael Hudson]

Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> writes:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I found in the standard Python lib a test, namely test_builtin, which tests 
> all built-in functions.  Is anybody aware of a similar test for the basic 
> built-in types, testing ints, longs, lists, dicts, tuples, strings...?

You're looking for test_types.

> And every opcode?

No idea.

> If not, this would probably be a good subproject.  Besides, it is something
> that could be contributed back to CPython.

Yes.

> It could also be turned into a much more accurate benchmark than
> that horrible PyStone !

Accurate in what sense?

Cheers,
M.

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