jeremy wrote: > FL> like whitespace indentation, it's done that way for a reason. > > Whitespace indentation is natural and makes code easier to read. > Putting little snippets of Python code in string literals passed to > exec has the opposite effect. Only if you're using large snippets. ...just like whitespace indentation makes things harder it you're mixing tabs and spaces, or prints a file with the wrong tab setting, or cuts and pastes code between editors with different tab settings. In both cases, the solution is simply "don't do that" > doctest is a nice middle ground, because the code snippets are in a > natural setting -- an interactive interpreter setting. They're still inside a string... > Python's compiler only reports one syntax error for a source file, > regardless of how many it finds <0.5 wink>. Sure, but is that because user testing has shown that Python programmers (unlike e.g. C programmers) prefer to see only one bug at a time, or because it's convenient to use exceptions also for syntax errors? Would a syntax-checking editor be better if it only showed one syntax error, even if it found them all? > > After the first exception, something is broken and needs to be > > fixed, regardless of whether subsequent lines of code work. > > FL> jeremy, that's the kind of comment I would have expected from a > FL> manager, not from a programmer who has done lots of testing. > > I don't think there's any reason to be snide. Well, I first wrote "taken out of context, that's the kind of comment" but then I noticed that it wasn't really taken out of context. And in full context, it still looks a bit arrogant: why would Andrew raise this issue if *he* didn't want more granularity? ::: But having looked everything over one more time, and having ported a small test suite to doctest.py, I'm now -0 on adding more test frame- works to 2.1. If it's good enough for tim... (and -1 if adding more frameworks means that I have to use them ;-). Cheers /F
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