[Python-Dev] readline.clear_history()

[Michael Hudson]

Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:

> On Thursday 28 August 2003 01:28 am, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> > Hmmm...  that makes me think of tests...  I guess I won't really be able
>> > to supply a test for the feature, since that would just be testing
>> > whether the feature is available.
>>
>> For interactive stuff like this, absence of unit tests is acceptable.
>
> pexpect (or rebuilding some of its functionality on top of raw pty)
> should allow unit tests of textmode interactive stuff, though -- in
> theory, at least.

I suspect this approach would find more out about bugs in the pty
implementations of old versions of Solaris than anything to do with
Python.

Cheers,
mwh

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