[Twisted-Python] Trial & the mock library

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Thu Jul 25 14:33:55 MDT 2013


On Jul 25, 2013, at 8:40 AM, Jonathan Lange <jml at mumak.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Laurens Van Houtven <_ at lvh.io> wrote:
> In addition to what jml said, I wonder if it makes sense for TestCase to raise when the return value of a test method is something other than None or a Deferred...
> 
> 
> Why stop there? Why not have a generic system to allow specifying valid return types for any function?

That sounds like a great idea, I wonder if anyone's thought of it before.

We already encode the information in epytext.  Should we make it a dependency, so it can be parsed at runtime to aid with enforcement?

-glyph

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