[Python-Dev] PEP 399: Pure Python/C Accelerator Module Compatibiilty Requirements

[R. David Murray]

On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:34:06 +0200, =?UTF-8?Q?=C3=89ric_Araujo?= <merwok at netwok.org> wrote:
> > Perhaps we need a @python_implementation_detail skip decorator?
>  That’s called test.support.cpython_only (see also 
>  test.support.check_impl_detail).  You’re welcome.

Nope.  That's not what I was talking about.  I was talking about marking
a test as something that we require only the *python* implementation of
a module to pass (presumably because it tests an internal implementation
detail).  Thus a C accelerator would not be expected to pass that
test, nor would a C# accelerator, but pypy or any platform without
an accelerator (that is, anything *using* the python code) would be
expected to pass it.

I would hope that such tests would be vanishingly rare (that is,
that all needed tests can be expressed as black box tests).

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