[Twisted-Python] Global reactor unit tests in the Twisted test suite

Itamar Turner-Trauring itamar at itamarst.org
Tue Nov 1 12:58:37 EDT 2011


> I find the "pass reactor as 1st argument to everything" API pattern
> messy. I'm sure there's a good reason. What is it?

1. Supporting multiple reactors.

2. Unit testing: if you have an explicit object, you can replace it more
easily with a fake.




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