[Python-Dev] Python equivalents in stdlib Was: Include datetime.py in stdlib or not?

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Thu Jul 8 01:13:33 CEST 2010


2010/7/7 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
>> Using a class decorator to duplicate each _test_ into two test_* methods
>> sounds  like a good approach.
>
> Note that parameterised methods have a similar problem to
> parameterised modules - unittest results are reported in terms of
> "testmodule.testclass.testfunction", so proper attribution of results
> in the test output will require additional work. The separate
> subclasses approach doesn't share this issue, since it changes the
> value of the second item in accordance with the module under test.

A good parameterized implementation, though, gives the repr() of the
parameters in failure output.



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Regards,
Benjamin


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