[pypy-dev] Re: [pypy-svn] r7364 - in pypy/trunk/src/pypy: appspace appspace/test module/test

[holger krekel]

[arigo at codespeak.net Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 12:07:01PM +0100]
> Author: arigo
> Date: Thu Nov 18 12:07:01 2004
> New Revision: 7364
> 
> [... wrestling commits with appspace-modules ... ] 
> 
> Directly testing the class 'complex' buried in __builtin__module.py is funny,
> beacuse it's difficult to import this __builtin__module.py directly into
> CPython.  Well, it's not impossible, given sufficiently obscure hacks.  Yadda
> yadda boum.  Committing applevel_in_cpython.py for that purpose, i.e.: testing
> directly in CPython some of the app-level code written in the
> module/*module.py files.
> 
> That's obviously a wrong solution.  We need something more like splitting the
> module/*module.py into several files (e.g. class complex:...) and most of them
> could just be imported in CPython too.

Such modules should probably be allowed to be a directory which can have
multiple files, all of which will be put into module's namespace. 
This should also make it easier to test them from CPython ... 

    holger