[Python-Dev] Checking in a broken test was: Re: [Python-checkins]r41940 (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 10:59:58 CET 2006

Scott David Daniels wrote:

OK I carried the code I offered earlier in this whole thread (tweaked in reaction to some comments) over to comp.lang.python, gathered some feedback, and put up a recipe on the cookbook. After a week or so for more comment, I'll be happy to submit a patch to include the brokentest decorator function in unittest.

Here is where the recipe is, for those who want to comment further: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/466288

Looks pretty handy to me - I've certainly experienced the "I know what the problem is and exactly how to provoke it, I just don't have time to fix it right now" problem myself.

I added a minor comment about testing for whether there were user supplied exceptions at definition time, rather than run time.

Cheers, Nick.

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