[Python-Dev] trunk doctests fail to execute with 2.7 alpha

[anatoly techtonik]

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks. I've copied test/test_support.py form Lib into 2.7 alpha
>> directory and it seems to work.
>> Although it doesn't seem good to me to mix test support library with
>> tests themselves.
>>
>
> What do you mean by "it doesn't seem good to me to mix test support library
> with tests themselves"? Do you mean to have it in the same directory - where
> would you put it? It isn't *meant* to be a public library, it exists only to
> support the test framework. In Python 3 it has been renamed support.py, but
> lives in the same location.

I mean that usually testing tools/libraries are separated from tests
itself, as well as data. test_support.py is not only located in the
same directory - it is even named in the same way. The test directory
looks like a mess with all these aux data files. But it is hard to
estimate if it would be worthy to separate testing framework from
tests and test data. It may happen that writing and debugging tests
become harder, because Python is not locked into some specific usage
domain.

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anatoly t.