[Python-Dev] Test cases for asynchat, asyncore?

[Jeremy Hylton]

>>>>> "TP" == Tim Peters <tim.one@home.com> writes:

  TP> Jim Fulton bumped into a gross problem in the 2.1b2 asynchat.py
  TP> today, introduced by conversion to string methods (one change
  TP> got the order of .find() arguments backwards).

  TP> This is embarrassing (or should be <wink>), because it meant
  TP> asynchat.py really had no chance of working at all!  And if Jim
  TP> hadn't bumped into it, we would have shipped it this way for 2.1
  TP> final next week.

This leads to the natural question:  Are there other modules that we
changed for string methods that don't have test suites?  If this
problem happened once, it could have happened twice.

Jeremy