Re: [Python-Dev] Tweaking the stdlib test infrastructure

2007-04-24 Thread Walter Dörwald
Collin Winter wrote: Fast and simple: I want all stdlib test cases to stop subclassing unittest.TestCase and start subclassing test_support.TestCase. Why: With a single parent class common to the entire stdlib, adding new functionality/testing instruments to *every single test at once*

Re: [Python-Dev] Tweaking the stdlib test infrastructure

2007-04-24 Thread glyph
On 12:39 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fast and simple: I want all stdlib test cases to stop subclassing unittest.TestCase and start subclassing test_support.TestCase. So: any objections to making this change? Not an objection so much as a question - if these feature additions are generally

Re: [Python-Dev] Tweaking the stdlib test infrastructure

2007-04-24 Thread Collin Winter
On 4/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12:39 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fast and simple: I want all stdlib test cases to stop subclassing unittest.TestCase and start subclassing test_support.TestCase. So: any objections to making this change? Not an objection so much as

Re: [Python-Dev] Tweaking the stdlib test infrastructure

2007-04-24 Thread glyph
On 04:36 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12:39 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fast and simple: I want all stdlib test cases to stop subclassing unittest.TestCase and start subclassing test_support.TestCase. So: any objections to making this

Re: [Python-Dev] Tweaking the stdlib test infrastructure

2007-04-24 Thread Brett Cannon
On 4/23/07, Collin Winter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [SNIP - Adding test.test_support.TestCase] So: any objections to making this change? God no! I am dying for you to write your replacement for unittest and get it into the stdlib! I am tired of camelCase method names in all of my test code.

[Python-Dev] Tweaking the stdlib test infrastructure

2007-04-23 Thread Collin Winter
Fast and simple: I want all stdlib test cases to stop subclassing unittest.TestCase and start subclassing test_support.TestCase. Why: With a single parent class common to the entire stdlib, adding new functionality/testing instruments to *every single test at once* becomes trivial. One example

Re: [Python-Dev] Tweaking the stdlib test infrastructure

2007-04-23 Thread Neal Norwitz
On 4/23/07, Collin Winter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fast and simple: I want all stdlib test cases to stop subclassing unittest.TestCase and start subclassing test_support.TestCase. Go for it! n ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Tweaking the stdlib test infrastructure

2007-04-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 23, 2007, at 8:39 PM, Collin Winter wrote: Fast and simple: I want all stdlib test cases to stop subclassing unittest.TestCase and start subclassing test_support.TestCase. So: any objections to making this change? Please use the absolute