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Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests

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On 11Oct2013 02:55, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 09:12:38 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> > Speaking for myself, I would be include to recast this code:
> > 
> >   @absolutize
> >   def addition(a, b):
> >       return a + b
> > 
> > into:
> > 
> >   def _addition(a, b):
> >       return a + b
> >   addition = absolutize(_addition)
> > 
> > Then you can unit test both _addition() and addition().
> 
> *shudders*
> Ew ew ew ew.

Care to provide some technical discourse here? Aside from losing the neat
and evocative @decorator syntax, the above is simple and overt.

> I would much rather do something like this:
> 
> def undecorate(f):
>     """Return the undecorated inner function from function f."""
>     return f.func_closure[0].cell_contents

Whereas this feels like black magic. Is this portable to any decorated
function? If so, I'd have hoped it was in the stdlib. If not: black magic.

> And in use:
> 
> py> f(100)
> 201
> py> undecorate(f)(100)
> 200

All lovely, provided you can convince me that undecorate() is robust.
(And if you can, I'll certainly be filing it away in my funcutils
module for later use.)

Cheers,
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

DRM doesn't inconvenience pirates ¿ indeed, over time it trains
law-abiding users to become pirates out of sheer frustration.
- Charles Stross

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Skipping decorators in unit tests Gilles Lenfant <gilles.lenfant@gmail.com> - 2013-10-10 07:00 -0700
  Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-10-11 09:12 +1100
    Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-11 02:55 +0000
      Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-10-11 14:13 +1100
        Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-11 04:36 +0000
          Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-11 04:23 -0400
      Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-11 14:42 +1100
      Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-11 04:17 -0400
      Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-11 04:25 -0400
      Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-11 04:32 -0400
      Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-10-11 10:51 -0700
  Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-10-10 19:44 -0400
  Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-10 21:12 -0400
  Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Gilles Lenfant <gilles.lenfant@gmail.com> - 2013-10-11 02:37 -0700
    Re: Skipping decorators in unit tests Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-10-12 08:38 +1100

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