On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 02:03:13PM +, James Chapman wrote:
> On the note of what doesn't need a test...
> The question of coverage always comes up when unit testing is
> mentioned and I read an interesting blog article once about it. It
> basically said: Assume you have 85% coverage on a progr
Thanks Steven!
You've raised a few valid points, mostly that the run_forever method
should be broken up. I like the principle of a method doing just one
thing and for whatever reason I didn't apply that thinking to this
method as it's the master loop (even though it does nothing). So for
starters
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:31:49AM +, James Chapman wrote:
> Hello tutors
>
> I've constructed an example which shows a problem I'm having testing a real
> world program and would like to run it past you.
[...]
> class Infinite_Loop_Tutor_Question(object):
> def run_forever(self):
>
Hmm...
Here is an example of how I'm currently trying to test it:
test_tutor_question.py
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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import unittest
import mock
from tutor_question import Infinite_Loop_Tutor_Question
class Test_Infinite_Loop_Tutor_Question(unittest.TestCase):
def
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 6:31 AM, James Chapman wrote:
> try:
> while self.attribute:
> time.sleep(1)
> except KeyboardInterrupt:
> ...
>
> My unit test could then set the attribute. However I'd still have the
> problem of how I get from the unit test line that fires up the method t
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 01:10:03PM +0100, spir wrote:
> I don't know whether one can interrupt while sleeping
py> from time import sleep
py> sleep(60*60*24*365) # 1 year
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
KeyboardInterrupt
Yes you can.
--
Steven
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On 01/31/2014 12:31 PM, James Chapman wrote:
try:
while self.attribute:
time.sleep(1)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
Maybe I'm missing apoint or reasoning wrongly, but I'd rather do:
while self.attribute:
try:
time.sleep(1)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
... or something lik
Hello tutors
I've constructed an example which shows a problem I'm having testing a real
world program and would like to run it past you.
tutor_question.py
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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import sys
import threading
import time
class Time_Printer(threading.Thread)
