Message73916
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Nick Edds <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Nick Edds <nedds@uchicago.edu> added the comment:
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> What do you think would be the best way to implement a test for this? To
> test it, I ran it on a known file that caused the old recursive method
> to fail, but I don't know if it makes sense to include that with the
> tests. I could always write a test to verify that the iterative element
> works, but as for testing the transition from recursive to iterative
> when the recursion limit is exceeded, do you think that is something I
> should do, and is there a better way than simply including the file that
> I know causes the recursion limit to be exceeded?
I recommend generating a deeply nested structure and/or using
sys.setrecursionlimit to make the recursion limit artificially low,
and testing that refactoring works as planned. |
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2008-09-27 02:36:00 | benjamin.peterson | set | recipients:
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2008-09-27 02:35:59 | benjamin.peterson | link | issue3358 messages |
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