[Python-Dev] Socket servers in the test suite

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:23:43 +0000 (UTC)
Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.

You can take a look at Lib/test/ssl_servers.py.

Regards

Antoine.