[Twisted-Python] Trial & the mock library

exarkun at twistedmatrix.com exarkun at twistedmatrix.com
Thu Jul 25 16:51:22 MDT 2013


On 08:33 pm, glyph at twistedmatrix.com wrote:
>
>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?

Please finish the Lore -> Sphinx transition first so that we can begin 
investigating whether reStructuredText for API documentation is 
sensible.  We don't want to drag in an epytext parsing dependency if 
we're just going to switch to docutils in eight or nine years.

Jean-Paul



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