On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 03:39, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > >> However, is there any reason why test.support itself shouldn't be > renamed > >> test._support, or possibly _test.support, so that the *entire* suite is > >> marked as a private implementation detail? > > > > Technically no for the _test idea, although it would promote the idea of > not > > shipping Python with its tests, which would be a shame as it's hard > enough > > to get people to run them. Renaming test.support is much more acceptable, > > just more work considering how many times that module is used in the test > > suite. > > Moving the docs should deal with the module and name indexing issue, > so -1 one to expending any developer effort on unnecessary name > changes in the test suite. > > Alright, I think there's now a sufficiently wide consensus to move the documentation of Lib/test and Lib/test/support in particular to the devguide, which raises a question: Currently test.support is documented both for Python 3K and 2.7, while the devguide (AFAIK) comes in a single version. I propose to just move 3K's docs to the devguide, and make both doc pages (in 3K and 2.7) point to it. Is this acceptable? Eli
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