[Twisted-Python] Thoughts about testing

Ralf Schmitt ralf at brainbot.com
Thu Oct 27 05:10:50 EDT 2005


glyph at divmod.com wrote:
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> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:11:06 -0400, James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net> wrote:
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>> On Oct 26, 2005, at 8:38 PM, Jonathan Lange wrote:
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>> Possibly "fixable" in trial with a horrible hack of looking up source  
>> line numbers of classes/methods and sorting according to that, but  
>> that seems rather...horrible.
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> 
> Why?  It's just one attribute - no magical side effects or anything.  
> It's documented, and this only affects sort order.  Seems like a pretty 
> reasonable change to me.
> 

The magical side effects happen if you choose to use decorators on the 
test functions. Suddenly the test functions 'use' the decorator's source 
line numbers.

- Ralf







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