Some background: I'm working (on and off) on issue 11015 - documenting the public functions in test.support
Some of the functions in test.support (for example unlink, rmtree) simply shadow existing & popular stdlib functions, with the aim of swallowing the exceptions these may throw. This is confusing, IMHO. For example, grepping 'unlink' on Lib/test/test_*.py files doesn't say much about which unlink is being used. A couple of options to handle this are: 1. Remove these functions altogether, trying to use existing constructs (such as the ignore_errors parameter in rmtree). 2. Adapt a naming convention for such functions, for instance rmtree_silent and unlink_silent (or a similar convention, if one exists) Opinions? Eli _______________________________________________ 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
