Python and TAP

[alex23]

On Feb 7, 8:03 am, Matej Cepl <mc... at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 6.2.2012 21:51, Terry Reedy wrote:
> > The 'TAP standard' is what the Perl TAP module does. There is a
> > pre-draft for an IETF standard. You could ask why Perl people don't care
> > about joining the unittest 'standard'.
>
> I don't think it is fair:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Anything_Protocol#External_links(orhttp://testanything.org/wiki/index.php/TAP_Producersandhttp://testanything.org/wiki/index.php/TAP_Consumers) shows a lot of
> producers and consumers in various programming languages.

That doesn't really disprove Terry's point. A lot of languages support
Perl's regular expression syntax too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression#Perl-derived_regular_expressions