[Python-Dev] On breaking modules into packages Was: [issue10199] Move Demo/turtle under Lib/

[Jesse Noller]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:26:53 +0000
> Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Antoine is firmly of the opinion that making TestCase instances
>> unpickleable is a feature...
>
> Apparently you didn't really understand me. I'm of the opinion that
> making TestCase instances pickleable is useless if that pickling
> doesn't have well-defined semantics. And I wonder what the semantics of
> pickling a TestCase could be, and what the use cases are.
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>

Splitting groups of tests to run in parallel via multiple processes is
a pretty good use case.