[Python-Dev] Socket servers in the test suite

[Vinay Sajip]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes:

> If you poke around in the test directory a bit, you may find there is
> already some code along these lines in other tests (e.g. I'm pretty
> sure the urllib tests already fire up a local server). Starting down
> the path of standardisation of that test functionality would be good.

I have poked around, and each test module pretty much does its own thing.
Perhaps that's unavoidable; I'll try and see if there are usable common patterns
in the specific instances.
 
> For larger components like this, it's also reasonable to add a
> dedicated helper module rather than using test.support directly. I
> started (and Antoine improved) something along those lines with the
> test.script_helper module for running Python subprocesses and checking
> their output, although it lacks documentation and there are lots of
> older tests that still use subprocess directly.

Yes, I thought perhaps it was too specialised for adding to test.support itself.

Thanks for the feedback,

Vinay