[Python-Dev] PEP 417: Adding mock to the Python Standard Library (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Mar 13 00:55:33 CET 2012

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Michael Foord <michael at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:

On 12 Mar 2012, at 16:31, Guido van Rossum wrote:

More to the point, I am approving the PEP.

We chatted briefly at the sprint and I just want to emphasize that the external version should not grow new features before the stdlib version has those same features (we don't want users complaining that the stdlib version is no good). Also, if you have some new features you're planning to add, add them now, before inclusion into the stdlib; and likewise, if you have some things you would like to remove, remove them now. Thanks. I'm happy to live with new feature releases only every 18 months in the external backport. Before inclusion there is one obsolete feature I'd like to remove (mocksignature) and two minor features I'd like to add (support for attribute deletion and a helper function for mocking open as a context manager). Beyond that the api is stable. A bunch of Python 2  compatibility code can also be removed in the standard library version.

Sounds good. Congrats!

-- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)

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