[Python-Dev] Re: how to test behavior wrt an extension type?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Alex Martelli wrote:

> Problem: to write unit tests showing that the current copy.py misbehaves with a classic extension 
> type, I need a classic extension type which defines __copy__ and __deepcopy__ just like /F's 
> cElementTree does.  So, I made one: a small trycopy.c and accompanying setup.py whose only purpose 
> in life is checking that instances of a classic type get copied correctly, both shallowly and 
> deeply.  But now -- where do I commit this extension type, so that the unit tests in test_copy.py 
> can do their job...?

Modules/_testcapimodule.c ?

(I'm using the C api to define an extension type, after all...)

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