[issue42109] Use hypothesis for testing the standard library, falling back to stubs
Guido van Rossum
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Wed May 19 00:45:06 EDT 2021
Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> added the comment:
Okay, well, I'm trying to understand minithesis.py, but I am despairing. The shrinking code (really everything in class TestingState) is too much to grok. You can tell from the amount of comments that this is the tour-de-force of the code, but the comments don't really help -- they seem to be mostly notes for people trying to reimplement this in another language. (Plus some snide remarks about QuickCheck.)
I suppose I have to read the paper at https://drmaciver.github.io/papers/reduction-via-generation-preview.pdf ... At least that has some drawings.
I am still unclear on some basics too, but presumably it's all related.
PS. What does "shortlex" mean?
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