[Python-Dev] Python 2.5.1 (original) (raw)

Calvin Spealman ironfroggy at gmail.com
Sun Apr 29 18:53:40 CEST 2007

On 4/29/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

> The > original test failed, my new one does not.

Then this change is incorrect: the test should fail in 2.5.0.

I think I don't get why the test must fail. If it fails, I assumed something was broken. If it failed because it was testing against a non-existant file, I assumed the test itself was broken.

> As for documentating the > intent of these tests, I don't think tracker items are visible enough.

Hmm. Is it asked too much to go to python.org/sf/1686475 when editing a test case named 'test1686475'?

Maybe this is my flag for "I'm dumb sometimes", but I did wonder what the number was for and completely neglected to consider it being a ticket number!

When researching the intent of some piece of code, you actually have more information available: the set of changes that was committed together (which would include a Misc/NEWS change, and the actual change to posixmodule.c), and the log message.

> When I'm looking at the unittest itself, am I to always search the > entire tracker for any bugs still relevent and pertaining to each test > I look at? That seems contorted, and easy to miss. I'll check the > tracker, and I'd like to add any information to the test itself. Clearly, if you think some relevant information is missing in a comment, submit a patch to add that information. I was unable to add anything, because I did not know it was missing.

I will do so. Maybe even just a link to the tracker, because of the likelihood of me not being the only person to complete miss what the number in the test name is for.

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I've read the bug report now. I see what I was missing all along. I think maybe you thought I knew of the bug report, and thus we were both confused talking on different frequencies and completely missing each other, Martin.

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