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Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Apr 27 02:51:46 EDT 2017 
On 4/27/2017 1:52 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 04/26/2017 10:35 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
>> On 4/26/2017 1:45 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> 
>>> :) But they are at least executed which is what we're really 
>>> measuring here and I think all Ethan and I are advocating
>>> for.
>>
>> I thought Ethan was advocating for more -- a specific unittest for 
>> each line.
> 
> I'm hoping that's just poor wording, or each module would need hundreds 
> of tests.  ;)

Poor wording, but I was wrong in any case.  An aspirational goal is that 
each line of of each function be exercised for correctness by at least 
one unittest.  For top-level code not in a function or class, we mostly 
have to settle for compile and run without error.
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