Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.python > #42409

Re: Help with python code!

Show all headers | View raw

In article <37f23623-8bf5-421a-ab6a-34ff622c69f1@googlegroups.com>,
 jojo <gerrymcgovern@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi - I am a newbie to python and was wondering can someone tell me what the 
> following code does. I need to figure out how to test it

I know this is going to sound unhelpful, but if your task is to test the 
code, what good does it do to know what it does?  Clearly, it does what 
it does.  What you really want to know is "What is it *supposed* to do?"  
Until you know what it's supposed to do, it is meaningless to even think 
about testing it.

Seriously.  I'm not trying to make life difficult for you.  I've seen 
too much time and effort wasted on useless testing because there wasn't 
any specification for what the code was supposed to do.

I will give you one hint, however.  You've got stuff like:

for line in os.popen(cmd).readlines():
line = line.rstrip()

This is a syntax error because the indenting is wrong.  Unlike C#, 
indenting is significant in Python.  I don't know if the code you've got 
really is indented wrong, or it's just an artifact of how you posted it.  
But before anything else, you need to sort that out.

Unless, of course, the specification for this code is, "It is supposed 
to raise IndentationError", in which case it passes the test :-)

Back to comp.lang.python | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Help with python code! jojo <gerrymcgovern@gmail.com> - 2013-03-31 13:10 -0700
  Re: Help with python code! Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-01 07:39 +1100
    Re: Help with python code! jojo <gerrymcgovern@gmail.com> - 2013-03-31 14:06 -0700
      Re: Help with python code! Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-03-31 17:13 -0400
        Re: Help with python code! jojo <gerrymcgovern@gmail.com> - 2013-03-31 14:21 -0700
          Re: Help with python code! Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-03-31 17:27 -0400
            Re: Help with python code! gerrymcgovern@gmail.com - 2013-03-31 14:32 -0700
              Re: Help with python code! Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2013-04-01 17:54 +0000
            Re: Help with python code! rurpy@yahoo.com - 2013-03-31 14:46 -0700
          Re: Help with python code! Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-01 08:35 +1100
            Re: Help with python code! gerrymcgovern@gmail.com - 2013-03-31 14:41 -0700
            Re: Help with python code! gerrymcgovern@gmail.com - 2013-03-31 14:41 -0700
          Re: Help with python code! Jason Friedman <jsf80238@gmail.com> - 2013-04-02 21:59 -0600
      Re: Help with python code! Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-01 08:21 +1100
        Re: Help with python code! gerrymcgovern@gmail.com - 2013-03-31 14:24 -0700
        Re: Help with python code! gerrymcgovern@gmail.com - 2013-03-31 14:24 -0700
      Re: Help with python code! Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-03-31 23:02 +0100
      Re: Help with python code! Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-01 09:04 +1100
    Re: Help with python code! jojo <gerrymcgovern@gmail.com> - 2013-03-31 14:06 -0700
  Re: Help with python code! Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-03-31 17:08 -0400

csiph-web