[ZODB-Dev] Heads-up: Test failure on trunk/Python 2.4.2/OS X

[Dmitry Vasiliev]

Tim Peters wrote:
> [Dmitry Vasiliev]
>> Oops, my bad. I couldn't imagine that misspelled text could been used in
>> any doctests so I had omitted the testing phase because I was in some
>> hurry. :-( And unfortunately I was far from any computers for past few
>> days.
> 
> Thanks for following up -- I was afraid you had vanished!

Not so fast... ;-)

> Especially for newer code, the tests try to exercise error conditions as
> well as normal and edge cases, and it's natural in doctests to include the
> text of an exception message.  So, ya, there's really nothing you can change
> outside of NEWS.txt anymore that doesn't require testing.

Sure, but my reasonable assumption was that when you insert an exception 
message in a doctest you reread it another one time and fix typos if any. I'll 
be more careful in the future about such assumptions.

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Dmitry Vasiliev (dima at hlabs.spb.ru)
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