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Author	chasonr
Recipients	chasonr, christian.heimes, janssen
Date	2008-01-28.02:59:33
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Message-id	<1201489174.59.0.580429992019.issue1926@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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It seems that I, or whoever writes any future test_nntplib.py, would have to understand how existing tests such as test_smtplib.py work. It looks like that one is setting up some kind of miniature mail server and accepting a connection on localhost -- neat trick, binding a server socket to port 0 so it still works if you have a real mail server running. Anyway, getting good coverage isn't something I can bang out in an afternoon. Class NNTPBase and its derivatives (I'm talking post-patch of course) have lots of methods and I want to cover them as well as possible.

It seems that I, or whoever writes any future test_nntplib.py, would
have to understand how existing tests such as test_smtplib.py work.  It
looks like that one is setting up some kind of miniature mail server and
accepting a connection on localhost -- neat trick, binding a server
socket to port 0 so it still works if you have a real mail server running.

Anyway, getting good coverage isn't something I can bang out in an
afternoon.  Class NNTPBase and its derivatives (I'm talking post-patch
of course) have lots of methods and I want to cover them as well as
possible.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-01-28 02:59:34	chasonr	set	spambayes_score: 0.0399284 -> 0.03992843 recipients: + chasonr, janssen, christian.heimes
2008-01-28 02:59:34	chasonr	set	spambayes_score: 0.0399284 -> 0.0399284 messageid: <1201489174.59.0.580429992019.issue1926@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-01-28 02:59:34	chasonr	link	issue1926 messages
2008-01-28 02:59:33	chasonr	create