[Tutor] What exactly is "state"?

[Joel Goldstick]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Sydney Shall <s.shall at virginmedia.com> wrote:
> I am a beginner and I am now at the strage of learning to write unittests.
> I have followed the current discussion entitled "How to test a class in
> pyhton", and I am not clear precisely what is meant by state. In its common
> meaning I can see some relevance. But is there a technical aspect to the
> notion. I see it mentioned often and feel rather uncomfortable that I know
> so little about it.
> I have deliberately started a new thread.
> Thanks.
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> Sydney
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'State' is the present value of all variables related to the code that
is running.  Often code execution is dependent on the present state to
determine the path of execution.

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Joel Goldstick
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