Message77261
| Author | brett.cannon |
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| Recipients | amaury.forgeotdarc, benjamin.peterson, brett.cannon, christian.heimes, georg.brandl, gvanrossum, mark.dickinson, rhettinger |
| Date | 2008-12-07.21:30:29 |
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| Message-id | <bbaeab100812071330q45af07b7u50da7e5df38e59db@mail.gmail.com> |
| In-reply-to | <1228685206.0.0.0371028186692.issue1717@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
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On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 13:26, Mark Dickinson <report@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> added the comment: > > About unittest: > > unittest.TestLoader has an attribute "sortTestMethodsUsing", which it > expects to be an old-style comparison. > > Should this attribute be updated (and renamed?) to expect a key function > instead, or left as is? > It will break backwards-compatibility if you change it. Possibly the best solution is to introduce a new attribute that does either key or just lt comparison and make sortTestMethodsUsing be a descriptor that wraps the function as needed. |
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| 2008-12-07 21:30:30 | brett.cannon | set | recipients: + brett.cannon, gvanrossum, georg.brandl, rhettinger, amaury.forgeotdarc, mark.dickinson, christian.heimes, benjamin.peterson |
| 2008-12-07 21:30:30 | brett.cannon | link | issue1717 messages |
| 2008-12-07 21:30:30 | brett.cannon | create | |