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Date Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:56:51 -0400
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On 6/6/2011 1:29 PM, rusi wrote:
> On Jun 5, 11:33 pm, Terry Reedy<tjre...@udel.edu>  wrote:

>> Let me add something not said much here about designing functions: start
>> with both a clear and succinct definition *and* test cases. (I only
>> started writing tests first a year ago or so.)
>
> I am still one year in the future :-;
> Which framework do you recommend? Nose? test.py?

As I explained in a followup post, I am currently using a custom 
function test function that accepts i/o pairs with exception classes as 
'outputs'. It was inspired by test.py, but that is both overkill and an 
unwanted external dependency for my current project. I also wrote and 
use an iterator test function and a specialized iterator test function 
for iterators that return sequences. (For better error reporting, the 
latter tests items within each sequence rather than each sequence as a 
whole. This is especially helpful when the items are themselves 
collections, as in some combinatorial iterators.)

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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  Re: Lambda question Mel <mwilson@the-wire.com> - 2011-06-04 14:21 -0400
  Re: Lambda question Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2011-06-05 11:31 +0200
    Re: Lambda question Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-06-05 14:33 -0400
      Re: Lambda question rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-06-06 10:29 -0700
        Re: Lambda question Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-06-06 21:56 -0400

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