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Yeah, it took me a couple of months to do a reasonable test case for the SSL code.

Perhaps we could test against an existing NNTP server? Like Google's?

Bill

On Jan 27, 2008 6:59 PM, Ray Chason <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

Ray Chason added the comment:

It seems that I, or whoever writes any future test_nntplib.py, would have to understand how existing tests such as test_smtplib.py work. It looks like that one is setting up some kind of miniature mail server and accepting a connection on localhost -- neat trick, binding a server socket to port 0 so it still works if you have a real mail server running.

Anyway, getting good coverage isn't something I can bang out in an afternoon. Class NNTPBase and its derivatives (I'm talking post-patch of course) have lots of methods and I want to cover them as well as possible.

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