[Python-Dev] Choosing a best practice solution for Python/extension modules (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Feb 23 22:23:10 CET 2009

Brett Cannon wrote:

Well, neither do I as your proposed approach below is what I do for warnings.

It's possible I actually had test_warnings.py open in another window while writing that example function... ;)

As Steven said, your concerns are precisely why I'm suggesting hiding this in a helper function - so people that aren't quite as comfortable playing games with sys.modules can still use it to suppress particular extension modules when writing tests. Initially for the Python regression test suite only, but perhaps eventually in importlib if we're happy with the way it works out for us.

Created http://bugs.python.org/issue5354 and assigned it to myself so we don't forget about it.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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