Re: [Pyunit-interest] Feature Request: Make TestCase a new-style class

[<je...@zo...>]

>>>>> "SP" == Steve Purcell <ste...@ya...> writes:

  SP> Jim Fulton wrote:
  >> Steve Purcell wrote:
  >> >Excellent suggestion. I shall make it so.
  >>
  >> Great. Will you update the Python distribution in time for 2.3?

  SP> Today I checked the requested change into both the PyUnit and
  SP> Python CVS trees. I'm not aware of any possible breakage that
  SP> could result from the change, so concerned PyUnit users should
  SP> feel free to comment on the mailing list if they see any
  SP> potential problems.

I've been meaning to mention that str(klass) works differently with a
new-style class than with a classic class.  As a result, the output
from a verbose test run produces different results.

Python 2.3a0 (#2, Aug  6 2002, 06:20:27) 
[GCC 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> class Foo(object):
...	pass
... 
>>> str(Foo)
"<class '__main__.Foo'>"
>>> "%s.%s" % (Foo.__module__, Foo.__name__)
'__main__.Foo'

Here's a classic class:

>>> class Bar:
...	pass
... 
>>> str(Bar)
'__main__.Bar'
>>> "%s.%s" % (Bar.__module__, Bar.__name__)
'__main__.Bar'

I think the solution is to write a helper function.

def strclass(cls):
    return "%s.%s" % (cls.__module__, cls.__name__)

And use it everywhere that a class is passed to a format string, 
e.g. '"%s" % cls'.

Jeremy