On 04/25/2017 10:11 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 4/25/2017 6:32 AM, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
"If it's not important enough to require tests it's not important enough to
be in Python." -- Ethan Furman
The original had a smily ';)' at the end.
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/2017-April/004436.html
In the context of debating how to improve python from where it is now, I do not
find the quote very helpful, as it
glosses over real difficulties of testing. I will try to explain in the
original thread.
Yes, the smiley was acknowledgement that testing is hard, will never be perfect, and we only have so much time -- but
thorough tests should still be the goal.
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