New submission from James Corbett :
The `unittest.TestCase.skipTest` method, used to skip the current test, is
currently an instance method. There's nothing to stop it from being a
`classmethod` or a `staticmethod` though---it doesn't use its reference to
`self` since it's
Change by James Corbett :
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pull_requests: +20171
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pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/20996
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New submission from James Corbett :
The `argparse.ArgumentParser` sometimes rejects positional arguments with no
arguments when `choices` is set and `nargs="*"`.
When there are no arguments and `nargs` is `"*"`, the default value is chosen,
or `[]` if there is no defau
Change by James Corbett :
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pull_requests: +20172
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pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/20997
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James Corbett added the comment:
I was careless in my example, it would need to be `cls.skipTest(reason)`.
However, that really doesn't have anything to do with why it should be a
`classmethod` instead of an instance method: it's so that you can call
`skipTest` from `classmethod
New submission from James Corbett :
As described in
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25847035/what-are-signature-and-text-signature-used-for-in-python-3-4,
https://bugs.python.org/issue20586, and
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50537407/add-a-signature-with-annotations-to-extension
Change by James Corbett :
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pull_requests: +20816
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pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/21673
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James Corbett added the comment:
I think this would have been a better fit for a StackOverflow issue:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python. Also, it's not a compilation
error and it doesn't have anything to do with CPython's testing framework.
Anyway, I don&#x
James Corbett added the comment:
I would love to get this issue resolved; it seems like everyone agrees that
it's a bug. It came up for me recently: https://bugs.python.org/issue41047.
Judging from the comments above, the consensus is that the relevant line,
`self._check_value(action,
