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[Python-Dev] noob contributions to unit tests

Maciej Fijalkowski fijall at gmail.com
Wed Mar 27 00:59:06 CET 2013 
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Sean Felipe Wolfe <ether.joe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey everybody how are you all :)
>
> I am an intermediate-level python coder looking to get help out. I've
> been reading over the dev guide about helping increase test coverage
> -->
> http://docs.python.org/devguide/coverage.html
>
> And also the third-party code coverage referenced in the devguide page:
> http://coverage.livinglogic.de/
>
> I'm seeing that according to the coverage tool, two of my favorite
> libraries, urllib/urllib2, have no unit tests? Is that correct or am I
> reading it wrong?
>
> If that's correct it seems like a great place perhaps for me to cut my
> teeth and I would be excited to learn and help out here.
>
> And of course any thoughts or advice for an aspiring Python
> contributor would be appreciated. Of course the dev guide gives me
> plenty of good info.
>
> Thanks!

That looks like an error in the coverage report, there are certainly
urllib and urllib2 tests in test/test_urllib*
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