[TIP] Generating tests dynamically (was Re: Meta-test methods...)

[Michael Foord]

Douglas Philips wrote:
> On or about 2009 Apr 26, at 9:18 AM, Michael Foord indited:
>   
>> C. Titus Brown wrote:
>>     
>>> This may seem tangential but IMO is not: could someone document the
>>> !%#!$!# out of unittest, please?
>>>       
>
> +1
>
>   
>> That's one of the difficulties of unittest - the extension mechanisms
>> are unclear. Once you do read the source code it isn't so hard to work
>> out - but there is no real guidance as to what the intended (or
>> approved) extension points are and which are implementation details.
>>     
>
> Indeed.
>   
> [snip...]
>   
>> I'd like to write up how I've extended unittest and maybe address some
>> of these issues once the current batch of changes are out of the way.
>>     
>
> I'd like to see that.
>   

Very minor start. I'm going to apply the following doc patch which
documents TestSuite.__iter__ and TextTestRunner._makeResult.

Michael

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