[Python-Dev] Socket servers in the test suite (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Apr 28 12:34:39 CEST 2011

On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:23:43 +0000 (UTC) Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan gmail.com> writes:

> If you poke around in the test directory a bit, you may find there is > already some code along these lines in other tests (e.g. I'm pretty > sure the urllib tests already fire up a local server). Starting down > the path of standardisation of that test functionality would be good. I have poked around, and each test module pretty much does its own thing. Perhaps that's unavoidable; I'll try and see if there are usable common patterns in the specific instances. > For larger components like this, it's also reasonable to add a > dedicated helper module rather than using test.support directly. I > started (and Antoine improved) something along those lines with the > test.scripthelper module for running Python subprocesses and checking > their output, although it lacks documentation and there are lots of > older tests that still use subprocess directly. Yes, I thought perhaps it was too specialised for adding to test.support itself.

You can take a look at Lib/test/ssl_servers.py.

Regards

Antoine.

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