On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:51:51 -0700, Collin Winter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 10/19/07, Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In trunk after 2.5, equality and hashing for TestCase were added, changing >> the behavior so that two instances of TestCase for the same test method hash >> the same and compare equal. This means two instances of TestCase for the >> same test method cannot be added to a single set. >> >> Here's the change: >> >> http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/unittest.py?rev=54199&r1=42115&r2=54199 >> >> The implementations aren't even very good, since they prevent another type >> from deciding that it wants to customize comparison against TestCase (or >> TestSuite, >> or FunctionTestCase) instances. > >The implementations have been changed in a more recent revision.
Not in http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Lib/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Is there a real use case for this functionality? If not, I'd like it to be >> removed to restore the old behavior. > >The use-case was problems I encountered when writing the test suite >for unittest. If you can find a way to implement the functionality you >want *and* keep the test suite reasonably straightforward, I'll be >happy to review your patch. The test suite can implement the comparison which is currently on the unittest classes and invoke that functionality instead of using == and !=. Jean-Paul _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
