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

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le mercredi 03 novembre 2010 à 15:48 -0400, Jesse Noller a écrit :
> 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.

Indeed, but it implies a lot of things about TestCase instances, which
could have additional non-pickleable attributes (e.g. file objects).
You'd better pickle the TestCase class instead, or simply the module
name as we do with regrtest -jN.

Regards

Antoine.