[Python-Dev] Py3k DeprecationWarning in stdlib

[Georg Brandl]

Guido van Rossum schrieb:

>>> Ok, then we're back to there being no supported way to write tests that
>>> need to
>>> intercept warnings.  Twisted has already suffered from this (JP reports
>>> that
>>> Twisted's assertWarns is broken in 2.6), and I doubt it's alone.
>>>
>>> So I guess I am filing a bug after all... :)
>>
>> Yeah - Brett's correct that everything under "test.test_support" should
>> really be formally undocumented. It's mostly a place for code that reflects
>> "things we do a lot in our unit tests and are tired of repeating" rather
>> than "this is a good API that we want to support forever and encourage other
>> people to use".
> 
> I still have a big problem with this attitude. If it's valuable enough
> to share between our tests, it should be properly written for reuse
> and documented. A collection of hacks remains a collection of hacks.
> We can do better.

Since this is part of Benjamin's project, we will make sure that the
test_support that emerges from it will be properly documented, stable
and usable.

Georg