[Python-Dev] Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] The versioning question... (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Tue Dec 28 14:23:59 CET 2004 

Eric> Unless you are doing comparison tests, where it would be nice to
Eric> be able to state in a generic way that the new implementation
Eric> should not change answers. May be something like:

Eric> import spam[1] as spamnext            # next version
Eric> import spam[0]        as spamnow              # current version

Eric> assert spamnow.Ni() == spamnext.Ni()

From the Zen of Python I quote:

Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

import spam.v1 as spamnext import spam.v0 as spamnow

assert spamnow.Ni() == spamnext.Ni()

Skip

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