[Pydev-code] Support for nose-of-yeti (a behavior driven development tool similar to ruby rspec)

[Florian G. <jer...@gm...>]

Hi PyDev devs,

I'm a user of nose-of-yeti (noy) [0] which is a tool that can be used 
together with tools like nose, lettuce, freshen, should_dsl, etc. to 
create a bdd environment similar to cucumber/rspec in ruby.

PyDev mostly supports this already. There's only one catch: nose-of-yeti 
requires a custom codec for spec files which is not supported by PyDev. 
This means that valid noy .spec files are not recognized which leads to 
incompatibilities in the PyDev debugger [1] and editor [2].

I'm currently working around the debugger problem with the patch 
described in [1]. But I couldn't solve the editor problem which is more 
complex.

To fully support noy, PyDev would have to:
1) Apply the patch in [1]
2) Either support non-default codecs in general - which is probably a 
good thing in it's own right - or support the 'spec' codec specifically.

1) will probably be unnecessary if the 'spec' encoding is generally 
supported.
2) I've written a small script that can be included in sitecustomize.py 
to register the spec if you want to try it out with PyDev, see attachment.

I hope someone on your side is interested to support me in this.

Thanks,

Florian

[0] https://bitbucket.org/delfick/nose-of-yeti/overview
[1] see 
https://bitbucket.org/delfick/nose-of-yeti/src/2866fc497e5b/README.rst
[2] throwing java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException: The encoding found: 
 >>spec<< on python/hrs/specs/test_messaging.py is not a valid encoding. 
at org.python.pydev.core.REF.getValidEncoding(REF.java:920)
and therefore not decoding the file correctly even when the codec is 
correctly registered via sitecustomize.py or usercustomize.py.