Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] Testing safe_mode

[Trent M. <tr...@gm...>]

On 11/5/07, Waylan Limberg <wa...@gm...> wrote:
> After working on safe_mode to add escaping, I realized that there's no
> way to test safe_mode in the testing framework. A few possibilities
> occurred to me.

The way I do it in markdown2.py's test suite is to have a "foo.opts"
file beside the "foo.txt" and "foo.html". The test harness looks for a
corresponding ".opts" file, reads it, evals it as Python (it must be a
Python dict) and passes it to the convert function via kwargs.

For example:

  http://python-markdown2.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/test/tm-cases/safe_mode.text
  http://python-markdown2.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/test/tm-cases/safe_mode.html
  http://python-markdown2.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/test/tm-cases/safe_mode.opts

> Thing is, the same text files could easily work with each of the
> possible modes. So another option would be to include additional html
> files in the existing directories with a special name (ie,
> "escaped-somefile.html). If those files exist, then additional tests
> would be run in the appropriate mode.

I've tried that before -- in another project -- and found it too
limiting. For example, this kind of this couldn't be done:

  http://python-markdown2.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/test/tm-cases/link_patterns.opts

Cheers,
Trent

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