[Zope-DB] Pitfall: mxODBCZopeDA and test runner in 2.9+

[Chris Withers]

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> 3. decide it really should have been mybar.py
> 
> I suppose you are doing 'mv myfoo.py mybar.py' here ...
> 
>> 4. delete myfoo.py
> 
> ... then this should be 'rm myfoo.py*' to get rid off the
> old PYC files.

Indeed...
>> 5. run unit tests to make sure you've fixed all import statements
> 
> That's a weird way to check your code. You should really
> do a grep on the sources to see whether any references
> to the 'myfoo' module are still left.

Nah, that just means you're too lazy to get decent test coverage ;-)

> code quality or to find hidden imports, unless you have 100%
> code coverage and are able to test all possible combinations
> of execution paths, which is unlikely :-)

Actually, no. Code coverage by unit tests on projects I work with is 
pretty high...

>> 7. get errors on fresh checkout because unit tests were using mybar.pyc
> 
> I still have a feeling that your trying to work around developer
> laziness here ;-)

Agreed. I always use -k to the testrunner, but I'm just explaining why 
people are having the problems they are...

Chris

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