[Python-Dev] testing question

[Michael Hudson]

Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:

>     Michael> There's a buglet in my assignable __bases__ code that can (in
>     Michael> pretty obscure situations) lead to Python code getting executed
>     Michael> with an exception pending.  I have a fix, but I'd like a test
>     Michael> -- can anyone think of a way of testing for this?
> 
> If it's too hard to implement in Python code, why not add something to
> Modules/_testcapimodule.c?

That would be harder, I think...

[Guido]

> I think you're talking about the code near the end of
> type_set_bases().  I still don't understand why you can'y just bail
> out?

I'm going to.  But I'd still like a test against the old behaviour.
It's not a big deal.

Cheers,
M.

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