> Oh, I was just addressing your bit about not knowing unit tests. > Doctests can be quicker to put together and have only a small learning > curve.
OK, I see what you mean. And you're right. I'm struggling mightily right now with trying to come up with sane unit tests for a bunch of generalized parser classes that I'm about to implement, and which are supposed to play nice with each other... Gah! But I'll get there eventually... :-) > On the larger scale, I too advocate extensive checking of 'tainted' > data from 'external' sources, then assuming 'clean' data is as expected > and doing no explicit further data checks, after all, you've got to > trust your development team/yourself. Right. Thanks for helpful tips and insights, and for taking the time! Cheers! /Joel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
