2011/4/12 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>:
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:59:53 +0200
> brett.cannon <python-check...@python.org> wrote:
>> Technical details of
>> +the VM providing the accelerated code are allowed to differ as
>> +necessary, e.g., a class being a ``type`` when implemented in C.
>
> I don't understand what this means ("a class being a ``type`` when
> implemented in C").
>
>> +If this test were to provide 100% branch coverage for
>> +``heapq.heappop()`` in the pure Python implementation then the
>> +accelerated C code would be allowed to be added to CPython's standard
>> +library. If it did not, then the test suite would need to be updated
>> +until 100% branch coverage was provided before the accelerated C code
>> +could be added.
>
> I really think that's a too strong requirement. We don't want to
> paralyze development until the stdlib gets 100% coverage in the tests
> suite.Presumably this only applies to new code, though, which I would hope would have comprehensive test coverage regardless of this PEP. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
