[Python-Dev] unittest.TestSuite holding references to unittest.TestCase instances too long

[R. David Murray]

On Sat, 03 Aug 2013 10:27:30 -0400, Matt McClure <matthewlmcclure at gmail.com> wrote:
> Michael Foord <fuzzyman <at> voidspace.org.uk> writes:
> > On 2 Aug 2013, at 19:19, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis <at> pitrou.net> wrote:
> > > The patch is basically ready for commit, except for a possible doc
> > > addition, no?
> >
> > Looks to be the case, reading the patch it looks fine. I'm currently on
> holiday until Monday.
> > If anyone is motivated to do the docs too and commit that would be great.
> Otherwise I'll
> > get to it on my return.
> 
> It looks like the patch is based on what will become 3.4. Would backporting
> it to 2.7 be feasible?  What's involved in doing so?

That depends on how likely Michale thinks it is that it might break
things.

> I took a crack at the docs.

Thanks.  Please post your patch to the issue, it will get lost here.

--David