[Python-Dev] Undocumenting test.support in 3.x (was Py3k DeprecationWarning in stdlib) (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson musiccomposition at gmail.com
Thu Jun 26 14:45:44 CEST 2008


On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 3:58 AM, Simon Cross <hodgestar+pythondev at gmail.com> wrote:

[1] Although personally I would bet against it until proven -- especially given a sensible definition of "core developer" to mean, in this case, anyone with the right to commit tests to the repository. [2] Since many of these future developers probably don't even use Python yet. [3] And we do want patches to issues to include tests, right?

See my above message. I don't think we need to worry about the docs part of "undocumented." All I mean by undocumented is that the API is not guaranteed throughout versions, and test.support really should only be used for core tests.

-- Cheers, Benjamin Peterson "There's no place like 127.0.0.1."



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