In article <874nzw3wxc....@benfinney.id.au>, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> writes: > > > In article <87k48szqo1....@benfinney.id.au>, > > Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > > > > > Worse, if one of the scenarios causes the test to fail, the loop will > > > end and you won't get the results for the remaining scenarios. > > > > Which, depending on what you're doing, may or may not be important. In > > many cases, there's only two states of interest: > > > > 1) All tests pass > > > > 2) Anything else > > For the purpose of debugging, it's always useful to more specifically > narrow down the factors leading to failure. Well, sure, but "need to debug" is just a consequence of being in state 2. If a test fails and I can't figure out why, I can always go back and add additional code to the test case to extract additional information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
