[TIP] speaking of more test frameworks

Ned Batchelder ned at nedbatchelder.com
Tue Apr 28 07:13:21 PDT 2009



C. Titus Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 07:58:50AM -0400, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> -> Noah Gift wrote:
> -> >Anyone try this out yet?
> -> >
> -> >http://code.google.com/p/thumbpy/
> -> >
> -> >The author is traveling through New Zealand, where I am currently.
> -> >Seems like he has used figleaf...
> -> >
> -> >  
> -> Yeah, I'd say: "The coverage part is based heavily on figleaf project. I 
> -> actually shameless stole the whole LineGrabber algorithm from there."  :-)
>
> Hey, that would be the stuff that was broken & got rewritten this last
> year... ;)
>
>   
I was going to mention something about the fact that neither figleaf nor 
coverage.py uses that technique for identifying executable statements 
any more, but thumbpy seems kind of dormant.

> Ned, I think our code is too easy to read and use.  Perhaps you could
> work on doing statement # injection into bytecode files and I'll work on
> a plugin architecture -- that way people won't be able to understand our
> code and we can continue racking up the big consulting fees.
>
>   
Big consulting fees?  What am *I* doing wrong? :-)
> --titus
>   

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