On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:23:43 +0000 (UTC) Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > If you poke around in the test directory a bit, you may find there is > > already some code along these lines in other tests (e.g. I'm pretty > > sure the urllib tests already fire up a local server). Starting down > > the path of standardisation of that test functionality would be good. > > I have poked around, and each test module pretty much does its own thing. > Perhaps that's unavoidable; I'll try and see if there are usable common patterns > in the specific instances. > > > For larger components like this, it's also reasonable to add a > > dedicated helper module rather than using test.support directly. I > > started (and Antoine improved) something along those lines with the > > test.script_helper module for running Python subprocesses and checking > > their output, although it lacks documentation and there are lots of > > older tests that still use subprocess directly. > > Yes, I thought perhaps it was too specialised for adding to test.support itself. You can take a look at Lib/test/ssl_servers.py. Regards Antoine.
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