[Python-checkins] devguide: A possible intro task that requires some initial coding.

[brett.cannon]

brett.cannon pushed edfd42089427 to devguide:

http://hg.python.org/devguide/rev/edfd42089427
changeset:   40:edfd42089427
user:        Brett Cannon <brett at python.org>
date:        Thu Jan 06 14:18:40 2011 -0800
summary:
  A possible intro task that requires some initial coding.

files:
  index.rst

diff --git a/index.rst b/index.rst
--- a/index.rst
+++ b/index.rst
@@ -80,6 +80,12 @@
     See if tempfile or test.support has a context manager that creates and
     deletes a temp file so as to move off of test.support.TESTFN.
 
+.. todo::
+    Create test.support.optional_import() for tests to use to import modules
+    that are optional on various platforms. This would allow for moving away
+    from ImportError representing a skipped test and also rip out the
+    expectations stuff from regrtest and put it with the tests instead.
+
 
 .. _buildbots: http://python.org/dev/buildbot/
 .. _PEP 7: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0007

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