[TIP] Testing for wrong type errors
Fred Drake
fdrake at gmail.com
Mon Nov 12 08:34:48 PST 2007
On Nov 12, 2007 11:26 AM, Nate Lowrie <solodex2151 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am just curious. Since Python doesn't have explicit type
> declarations, do y'all test for type errors. For example, if you're
That depends on the contract for the function. If I want to ensure
errors are handled in a specific way, I'll test for that. If the
function is performance-sensitive, I'll more often explicitly declare
that the behavior for incorrect parameter types is undefined (in the
docstring or README.txt), and then not test for that.
-Fred
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