Since I'm browsing all the codebase for the portage, I'll make a list of 
sections needing tests. From what I saw until now, web/session.py could use 
some doctests.

Le mercredi 22 juin 2016 09:37:02 UTC+2, Kenny Rachuonyo a écrit :
>
> Hello Anand, 
>
> What would be the starting point to identify the parts that need more 
> test coverage? 
>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Anand Chitipothu <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 at 14:48 Mathieu Xhonneux <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> >> 
> >> Hi, 
> >> 
> >> I've been hired by the CS departement of the Université Catholique de 
> >> Louvain (UCL, Belgium) to port web.py to Python 3. We're using the 
> framework 
> >> in some of our internal tools and we do need a Py3 upgrade for them. 
> > 
> > 
> > Thats a great news! And thank you for taking up this task. 
> > 
> >> 
> >> I've already done some work, available here : 
> >> https://github.com/Zashas/webpy/tree/py3 
> >> We saw that Anand began the migration 3 years ago and decided to pursue 
> >> his work (making the codebase compatible with Py2 and Py3, which seems 
> to me 
> >> the best option, btw Django manages it successfully). I integrated the 
> >> commits he already wrote back then, ported all the unittests to Py3 and 
> now 
> >> I'm busy making them pass in both versions of Python. 
> > 
> > 
> > I'll review it in next couple of days and lets try to merge into master 
> as 
> > soon as possible. 
> > 
> > The current version of python maintains compatibility with Python 2.4 
> > onwards. I think we can drop 2.4 and 2.5 completely. I'm in favour of 
> > dropping 2.6 as well and retain only 2.7 and Python 3.5+. 
> > 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> The ORM seems to be OK (I'm kinda hoping the tests' coverage is wide 
> >> enough), but it originally supports some DB backends that are either no 
> >> longer maintained, or not ported to Py3 : 
> >> 
> >> psycopg1 : evolved to psycopg2, I'm guessing that not much people are 
> >> using it these days 
> >> pysqlite2 : not ported to Py3 
> >> MySQLdb : not ported to Py3, but mysqlclient seems to be compatible and 
> to 
> >> do the job fairly enough 
> >> DBUtils : not ported to Py3 
> >> 
> >> Maybe we should consider dropping support for these ? Their presence is 
> >> not doing any harm in the codebase, but I don't think that psycopg1 and 
> >> pysqlite2 are still useful, and removing them could clean the code a 
> bit. 
> > 
> > 
> > I think db module is very important piece. Yes, we can drop all those 
> legacy 
> > postgres modules. Switching to mysqlclient for Python3 seems likes a 
> good 
> > idea to me. 
> > It is desirable to have connection polling. If DBUtils doesn't work with 
> > Python 3, lets try to find alternative. 
> > 
> >> 
> >> Anyway, if anyone wants to follow my work, I'm open to any remark, 
> >> suggestion or patch. I'm hoping to have ported everything by friday, 
> but it 
> >> will definitively require some testing. 
> > 
> > 
> > Test coverage is really poor for web.py. Good to have that fixed as we 
> are 
> > making lot of changes. Any one interested to help with that? 
> > 
> > Anand 
> > 
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