On 5/2/2015 6:29 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
At the moment I define the test functionality in the following way:
Any automated testing is better than none. For idlelib, I use unittest. For an individual project with specialized needs, I use a custom test framework tuned to those needs.
else: action = options[0][0] if action == '--all': do_all = True elif action == '--factorial': do_factorial = True elif action == '--fibonacci': do_fibonacci = True elif action == '--happy': do_happy = True elif action == '--lucky': do_lucky = True else: print >> sys.stderr, progname + ': Unhandled parameter ' + action sys.exit(1)
There is usually a way to factor out the duplication of repetitive code like this. Often, a dict is somehow involved. I believe the following is equivalent to the above.
else: action = options[0][0] try: globals()['do_'+action[2:]] = True except KeyError: print >> sys.stderr, progname + ': Unhandled parameter ' + action sys.exit(1) -- Terry Jan Reedy -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list