Message 141914 - Python tracker

Message141914

Author	petri.lehtinen
Recipients	eric.araujo, hynek, petri.lehtinen, tarek
Date	2011-08-11.17:46:33
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In-reply-to	<1313074643.2.0.819140414967.issue12721@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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Éric Araujo wrote: > Petri: these helper functions are all about convenienve. I would > reject a patch for a function just doing open+read, but here I think > that doing os.path.join+open+read is worth a function. We use such > helpers all the time in packaging tests and it helps reducing > boilerplate, without being very hard to understand. Ok, sounds reasonable.

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Éric Araujo wrote:
> Petri: these helper functions are all about convenienve. I would
> reject a patch for a function just doing open+read, but here I think
> that doing os.path.join+open+read is worth a function. We use such
> helpers all the time in packaging tests and it helps reducing
> boilerplate, without being very hard to understand.

Ok, sounds reasonable.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-08-11 17:46:33	petri.lehtinen	set	recipients: + petri.lehtinen, tarek, eric.araujo, hynek
2011-08-11 17:46:33	petri.lehtinen	link	issue12721 messages
2011-08-11 17:46:33	petri.lehtinen	create