In article <mailman.571.1331492028.3037.python-l...@python.org>, Herman <sorsor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to stick to the rule described in the TDD book that, each > test method name consists of the method name to be tested, inputs and > the expected outputs. It takes up a lot of space and my company has a > rule of limiting 79 characters (or 80) per line. I found that > def abcdeef\ > dddaaa(self): > pass > > does not work, but > def \ > abcsajfoijfiawifoiwejfoi(self): > pass > > works. Is this the only way to do it? Arrrrrrrrhhhggggg. If you can't fit a test method name into 79 characters, you're doing somthing wrong. Just for fun, I found all the test methods in the project I'm working on and sorted them by length. Here's the top of the list: $ find . -name 'test*py' | xargs grep -h 'def *test' | sort | uniq | awk '{print length($0), $0}' | sort -nr 55 def test_update_name_changes_dasherized_name(self): 51 def test_get_followers_with_no_followers(self): 50 def test_update_station_song_adds_false(self): 50 def test_anonymous_get_user_collections(self): 49 def test_wrong_user_update_should_fail(self): 49 def test_login_with_email_and_password(self): 47 def test_unknown_station_returns_404(self): 47 def test_login_failure_with_facebook(self): 47 def test_get_follows_with_no_follows(self): 46 def test_station_by_dasherized_name(self): 46 def test_nonexistent_recent_station(self): 46 def test_new_user_with_display_name(self): 46 def test_auto_connect_with_facebook(self): 46 def test_anonymous_created_stations(self): 45 def test_no_php_fatal_error_in_log(self): 45 def test_get_only_songza_followers(self): 45 def test_anonymous_vote_transition(self): 44 def test_non_ascii_global_station(self): 44 def test_global_station_not_found(self): 44 def test_gallery_create_duplicate(self): 44 def test_anonymous_listen_history(self): and so on down to the wonderfully terse: 21 def test_x(self): which I'm assuming actually makes sense in the context of the TestCase class it belongs to. At least I hope it does :-) The examples above are a reasonable upper limit on the verbosity you should be shooting for, IMHO. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list