Re: [Pyunit-interest] PyUnitTestBrowser - Memory leak

[Steve P. <ste...@ya...>]

Alexander Garden wrote:
> > The slash is not optional because we don't want your BASH or whatever to 
> > expand the *. We need to expand it for you, recursively in each sub 
> > directory. Like 'find'. 
> 
> Being a Unix guy, I'd much, much rather have the shell do the work of
> finding files for me. That's what it's good at. That's what it's there
> for, among other things. If I needed to recursively find files, I'd do
> 	$ ./browser.py `find . -name 'test*.py'`
> which is admittedly rather clumsy if one must type it often, but one
> shouldn't have to, right? :) And it is easily bound up into a shell
> script or alias anyway.


I second that. On UNIX, scripts shouldn't be doing any globbing
themselves. Better explicit than implicit, etc. etc. And on a practical
note, the more magic is in a script, the more bugs and maintenance issues
appear later. (Perl, anyone? :-)

-Steve