[Python-ideas] File format for automatic and manual tests

[Victor Porton]

On 08/08/18 02:18, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 12:57:51AM +0300, Victor Porton wrote:
>> This is an idea of a new PEP.
>>
>> I propose to create a portable file format which will list command line
>> options to run Python scripts with dual purpose:
> Feel free to create whatever file format you like. There are tens of
> thousands of them, one more won't hurt, and you certainly don't need to
> write a PEP first.
>
> But I see no reason why this has anything to do with the Python standard
> library. Can you explain why you want to distribute an experimental
> file format in the Python std lib?

As I pointed out, I want this format to become common (standardized!) 
for different IDEs and other development environment.

> That means that the file format must be stable (you cannot make any
> future changes, due to backwards compatibility), and only available for
> Python 3.8 or higher.
We can support this file format with an library (rather than to 
distribute it with Python) for: 1. make it available for the current 
version of Python; 2. don't take space in Python distribution.

The issue is in the file format itself, not in the libraries it may be 
processed by. I propose to make the PEP containing a description of the 
file format (to be developed). It is important for integration among 
different development environments.

The PEP should be marked as "stable" when the format becomes stable.

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>> PyCharm allows to define and store different command line options for
>> Python scripts.
>>
>> This has two drawbacks:
>>
>> 1. It is not portable and this makes me not to submit the PyCharm
>> configuration into my GitHub repo.
> You can put anything you like in your GitHub repo, GitHub won't care
> whether it is portable or not.
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