bpo-24813: IDLE: Add bitness to About Idle title by csabella · Pull Request #2380 · python/cpython (original) (raw)

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If build bits were a real function, I would want to to try to hit all branches. And if we otherwise get to to 99'% coverage, I might want to do so, but it would be artificial. On Macs, the value of sys.architecture seems undefined, which is why it is not used. (Or I might just note that 99% is 100% of what is sensibly possible on any one system. ;-)

Read something about 'unit testing', such as parts of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_testing and 'test-driven development', such as the first half of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development. There is clearly overlap. Keep in mind that both topics are subjects of programming religion.