http://cia.vc/stats/author/michael.foord870191 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #14770 roundup michael.foord Minor documentation fixes [new] A bunch of minor fixes for the documentation suggested by Kurt Robinson to the webmaster email address: Below, you will find 15 snippet ... http://bugs.python.org/issue14770 1336663087 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #14558 roundup michael.foord Documentation for unittest.main does not describe some keyword arguments. A good change - thanks Ezio. http://bugs.python.org/issue14558 1335816749 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #14664 roundup michael.foord Skipping a test mixin gives metaclass error Thanks Antoine - much appreciated. http://bugs.python.org/issue14664 1335383291 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #14664 roundup michael.foord Skipping a test mixin gives metaclass error This could go into 2.7 too. http://bugs.python.org/issue14664 1335376149 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #14664 roundup michael.foord Skipping a test mixin gives metaclass error Patch looks good - thanks. http://bugs.python.org/issue14664 1335318428 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #14634 roundup michael.foord Mock cannot autospec functions with keyword-only arguments. Hmmm... looks like formatargspec does support these features but they aren't documented. If it works out I'll update the docs for inspect.formatar ... http://bugs.python.org/issue14634 1335043016 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #14634 roundup michael.foord Mock cannot autospec functions with keyword-only arguments. This is non-trivial to fix. Although inspect.getfullargspec can be used, which does support keyword only arguments, inspect.formatargspec *doesn't ... http://bugs.python.org/issue14634 1335041750 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #7559 roundup michael.foord TestLoader.loadTestsFromName swallows import errors My favoured fix is to catch the exception and generate a failing test that re-raises the *original exception* (with traceback) when run. That way ... http://bugs.python.org/issue7559 1335032704 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #14636 roundup michael.foord Mock could check for exceptions in side effect list Seems like a good change. http://bugs.python.org/issue14636 1334976220 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #14613 roundup michael.foord time.time can return None or NaN So NaN is a possible result from time.time()? Perhaps that should be mentioned in the docs. Is returning NaN preferable to failing with an exception? http://bugs.python.org/issue14613 1334769398 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #14613 roundup michael.foord time.time can return None or NaN [new] time.time() can return None, or sometimes NaN. If it can't get a "proper" value from the OS then I would expect it to throw an exception. Th ... http://bugs.python.org/issue14613 1334766637 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #14577 roundup michael.foord pickling uses __class__ so you can't pickle proxy/mock objects that pretend to be other objects Nick - in general proxy objects have a *reference* to their target (weakref being somewhat of a special case), and pickle can already handle multi ... http://bugs.python.org/issue14577 1334418889 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #14577 roundup michael.foord pickling uses __class__ so you can't pickle proxy/mock objects that pretend to be other objects test_pickle still passes with only copyreg.py modified. With one additional change in pickle.py (line 405 to use type(obj) instead of obj.__cl ... http://bugs.python.org/issue14577 1334418118 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #14577 roundup michael.foord pickling uses __class__ so you can't pickle proxy/mock objects that pretend to be other objects So, changing copyreg.py to use type(self) instead of self.__class__ isn't sufficient. _pickle accesses __class__ as well it seems. However I'm run ... http://bugs.python.org/issue14577 1334417417 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #14577 roundup michael.foord pickling uses __class__ so you can't pickle proxy/mock objects that pretend to be other objects [new] Pickling uses __class__ instead of type(obj) to determine the type to pickle. This means that objects which pretend to be other objects (lik ... http://bugs.python.org/issue14577 1334416723 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #11218 roundup michael.foord pattern=None when following documentation for load_tests and unittest.main() Also the patch to allow the pattern to be None (and revert to the default pattern in this case) looks good. http://bugs.python.org/issue11218 1334365662 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #11218 roundup michael.foord pattern=None when following documentation for load_tests and unittest.main() So the logic of the "pattern" argument to "load_tests" is that it should not be None when test discovery is loading the __init__.py module of a te ... http://bugs.python.org/issue11218 1334365603 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #14534 roundup michael.foord Add method to mark unittest.TestCases as "do not run". Here are my objections to the standard (but not widely used outside our own tests) mixin pattern for base testcases (copied and pasted from issue ... http://bugs.python.org/issue14534 1334018706 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #14534 roundup michael.foord Add method to mark unittest.TestCases as "do not run". So the technique I suggested is that the TestLoader checks classes for the "testbase" (or whatever we call it) *in the class dict*. So inheritance ... http://bugs.python.org/issue14534 1334018480 Roundup Reactor for CIA 69784 Python #14533 roundup michael.foord Modify regrtest to make test_main optional Looks good to me. Note that if module level setup and teardown is needed for running tests then it should be possible to do this with setUpModule ... http://bugs.python.org/issue14533 1333942663