On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Dwight Hutto <dwightdhu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Aaron Brady <castiro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've developing a test script. There's a lot of repetition. I want to >> introduce a strategy for approaching it, but I don't want the program to be >> discredited because of the test script. Therefore, I'd like to know what >> people's reactions to and thoughts about it are. >> >> The first strategy I used created an iterator and advanced it between each >> step: > > That isn't a refined iterator below: What I mean is look at the similarities, and the differences, then replace the differences with interpolation, in eval even.
> >> self.op_chain(range(5), ('add', 5)) >> self.op_chain(range(5), ('add', -2), ('add', -1)) >> self.op_chain(range(5), ('discard', -1), ('add', 5)) >> self.op_chain_ok(range(5), ('update', [0, 1])) >> Etc. >> >> I'm considering something more complicated. 'iN' creates iterator N, 'nN' >> advances iterator N, an exception calls 'assertRaises', and the rest are >> function calls. iN = [N for N in range(0,5)] >> dsi= dict.__setitem__ >> ddi= dict.__delitem__ >> dsd= dict.setdefault >> KE= KeyError >> IE= IterationError >> self.chain(range(10), 'i0', (dsi, 0, 1), 'n0', (dsi, 10, 1), (IE, >> 'n0')) >> self.chain(range(10), 'i0', 'n0', (dsd, 0, 0), 'n0', (dsd, 10, 1), >> (IE, 'n0')) >> self.chain(range(10), 'i0', (KE, ddi, 10), 'n0', (ddi, 9), (IE, >> 'n0')) >> >> Do you think the 2nd version is legible? Could it interfere with the >> accuracy of the test? Define the 2nd version > > Show the test, which should show instances of what you want called. > > I could rewrite the above, but it seems you're more in need of refining > your iterations, and the values given within them. > -- Best Regards, David Hutto CEO: http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list