[Zope-dev] Manuel and TestFixtures

[Chris Withers]

On 08/09/2009 18:04, Chris Withers wrote:
> Coming back to this ancient thread...

...and once more, only a year and a half later ;-)

> What I'd really like to do is write a Manuel plugin that will be part of
> testfixtures' TempDirectory and would handle the following:
>
> .. topic:: some/dir/myfile.py
>     :class: file
>
>      ::
>
>           class MyClass:
>              def something(self):
>                 pass
>
> ...to write the file.
>
> ...and:
>
> .. topic:: some/dir/myfile.py
>     :class: expected-file
>
>      ::
>
>           class MyClass:
>              def something(self):
>                 pass
>
> ...to check it exists and matches what should be there, emitting
> meaningful error messages if things are wrong.

...this is now a reality:

http://packages.python.org/testfixtures/files.html#using-with-manuel

cheers,

Chris

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