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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Jun 27 13:00:35 CEST 2008

Benjamin Peterson wrote:

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

I'm personally fine with that approach, but some of the new items in there for 2.6 could probably use a bit of cleaning up to improve the APIs and/or the way they work. So get crackin'! I'll add to my list. :) Anyway, if we are going to make test.support public for real why don't we take Nick's suggestion to rename the test package to test, but move test.support to a toplevel position like testutils or such.

Leaving the actual test modules undocumented (which is the situation now) is fine in my opinion. The _test idea was just for if we wanted to document test_support for our own benefit without promising to keep it stable for later releases.

Cheers, Nick.

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