| thumper | afternoon | 00:52 |
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| kcj | Afternoon. | 00:56 |
| ibeardslee | morning | 19:44 |
| ojwb | morning | 19:57 |
| chilts | morning | 20:20 |
| chilts | shucks, I never said morning yesterday! | 20:20 |
| * chilts <- bad person | 20:20 | |
| ojwb | it was tough, but we survived without you doing your bit | 20:24 |
| Atamira | morning | 20:26 |
| chilts | ojwb: heh, good job everyone :) | 20:28 |
| ajmitch | morning | 20:34 |
| thumper | morning | 20:51 |
| thomi | lifeless: got a second? | 22:00 |
| lifeless | sure | 22:19 |
| thomi | lifeless: given a python dotted string like "foo.bar.baz", is there a way to tell if that refers to a python module or a python package? | 22:25 |
| lifeless | do you mean 'refers to (a python module or a python package)' or 'refers to (a pytohn module) or refers to (a python package)' ? | 22:27 |
| lifeless | (what question are you trying to answer, and why?) | 22:28 |
| thomi | lifeless: I meant the latter. The problem we're trying to solve is: | 22:29 |
| thomi | we'd like users to be able to run one or more autopilot tests by specifying a string of varying exact-ness. They might specify an entire test id (i.e.- right up to, and including the actual test classmethod), or they might specify just a test case class, a test module, or perhaps just a package that contains several test modules. | 22:30 |
| thomi | testools test loader has twho methods for loading tests: discover (which takes a package name), and loadTestsFromName (which takes a module, class, of function name) | 22:31 |
| thomi | so we need a way of knowing if we should call 'discover(name)' or 'loadTestsFromName(name)' | 22:31 |
| lifeless | oh | 22:31 |
| thomi | does that make sense? | 22:31 |
| lifeless | so, if I may suggest | 22:31 |
| lifeless | you're turned around backwards | 22:31 |
| thomi | oh? | 22:31 |
| lifeless | you want a UI for letting the user select tests to run, as a user of the system. | 22:31 |
| lifeless | This is distinct from telling the system how to instantiate tests. | 22:32 |
| lifeless | discover and loadTestsFromName have quite different behaviour, you will have less friction if you pick one and stick with it. | 22:32 |
| thomi | I see. so maybe we use discover, get all the tests and filter them ourselves | 22:32 |
| lifeless | indeed | 22:33 |
| thomi | awesome. That makes sense | 22:33 |
| thomi | thanks :) | 22:33 |
| lifeless | thats what e.g. bzr selftest does (with some glue to optimise the time to instantiate tests - but it has 20K tests) | 22:33 |
| thomi | ahh, I see | 22:33 |
| thomi | BTW, meet veebers (new QA engineer in Dunedin and on the PyCon conference committee) | 22:33 |
| lifeless | o/ | 22:34 |
| veebers | Hi lifeless :) | 22:34 |
| thomi | you lost an arm! | 22:34 |
| thomi | /o\ | 22:34 |
| ajmitch | veebers: you finally decided to lurk in here? :) | 22:34 |
| veebers | ajmitch: heya. yeah, I just think I need to increase my lurk-ness :) | 22:36 |
| ajmitch | just remember to say 'morning' each day | 22:37 |
| veebers | right, noted. | 22:39 |
| veebers | morning all | 22:39 |
| mwhudson_ | morning | 23:23 |
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