[Twisted-Python] Hanging test cases (Was: Evangelism notes...)

[Grant Baillie]

On May 5, 2005, at 12:26 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

>> I'm not sure if this is a problem in python, in twisted's use of  
>> threading, or in trial.deferredResult, though.
>>
>
> Almost definitely a combination of 2 and 3, with 3 being the one  
> really at fault.  Trial is horribly, horribly broken by design and  
> it's really just an accident that it works at all.  The  
> expectations a lot of the tests have about the reactor are also  
> broken, but that's mostly just a consequence of trial sucking.

Thanks for the info. I'll go ahead and file a bug, unless someone  
tells me not to. FWIW, I'm happy with my workaround (I'm really only  
using it to keep my doc/unittests relatively uncomplicated).

--Grant

Grant Baillie
Open Source Applications Foundation
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