Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case

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Date	2015-07-16 13:11 +1000
Subject	Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
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On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Larry Hudson via Python-list
<python-list@python.org> wrote:
> On 07/15/2015 05:11 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Jason P. <suscricions@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I can't understand very well what's happening. It seems that the main
>>> thread gets blocked listening to the web server. My intent was to spawn
>>> another process for the server independent of the test. Obviously I'm doing
>>> something wrong. I've made several guesses commenting pieces of code
>>> (tearDown method for example) but I didn't manage to solve the problem(s).
>>>
>>
>> When you find yourself making guesses to try to figure out what's
>> going on, here are two general tips:
>>
>> 1) Cut out as many pieces as you can. Test one small thing at a time.
>> 2) If In Doubt, Print It Out! Stick print() calls into the code at key
>> places, displaying the values of parameters or the results of
>> intermediate calculations - or just saying "Hi, I'm still here and I'm
>> running!".
>>
> In addition to using print(), in some places I like using input() instead,
> as in:
>     input('x={}, y={} --> '.format(x, y))
> Then the program stops at that point so you can study it.
> To continue just press <Enter>, or Ctrl-C to abort.

That's a neat trick, as long as you actually do have a console. IIDPIO
is extremely general (works across languages, across frameworks (eg a
web server), etc), but these kinds of extensions are pretty handy when
they make sense.

ChrisA

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Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case "Jason P." <suscricions@gmail.com> - 2015-07-15 04:44 -0700
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-15 22:11 +1000
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-15 20:01 -0700
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-16 13:11 +1000
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2015-07-15 20:33 -0700
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-16 13:44 +1000
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2015-07-16 13:03 -0700
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-17 06:11 +1000
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2015-07-16 13:30 -0700
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2015-07-16 14:27 -0700
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-17 09:24 +1000
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2015-07-16 17:30 -0700
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-07-17 12:44 +1000
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-17 13:01 +1000
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-07-17 16:47 +1000
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2015-07-17 02:15 -0700
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-17 20:57 +1000
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2015-07-16 21:15 -0700
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-17 15:16 +1000
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-07-17 16:38 +1000
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2015-07-17 10:57 -0700
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-07-17 22:38 +0200
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2015-07-18 14:12 -0700
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-07-17 23:03 +0100
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-07-17 18:45 -0400
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2015-07-18 00:30 -0700
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2015-07-18 16:18 -0700
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-07-19 11:09 +0200
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2015-07-19 10:25 -0700
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-07-19 18:45 +0100
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-07-19 19:50 +0200
Off-topic: Europe [was Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case] Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-07-20 12:30 +1000
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2015-07-17 16:15 -0700
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-07-17 08:26 -0400
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-16 20:49 -0700
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case "Jason P." <suscricions@gmail.com> - 2015-07-21 10:38 -0700
Re: Noob in Python. Problem with fairly simple test case Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-22 03:48 +1000

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