[TIP] Meta-test methods...

[Robert Collins]

On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 00:01 -0400, Douglas Philips wrote:
> 
> 
> Anyway, I double-dare you pay attention to the issue at hand. :)
> I never said generators were bad. I said that checking a test method  
> for being a generator was a hack, seeminly cool at first, but upon  
> further thought it is just as a proof of concept that it is useful
> to  
> have a way to dynamically generate a sequence of test
> methods/functions.
> Testing only for generators is both opaque and, critically, fails to  
> generalize to arbitrary python sequences.

At least in unittest, you can do this just by generating whatever tests
you want in TestSuite.__iter__.

countTestCases clearly can't do a lot there, but that is the only method
in the protocol that conflicts with generation.

-Rob
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