[Zope-dev] Re: Unit Test Failures

[Tres Seaver]

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Jim Fulton wrote:
> Tres Seaver wrote:
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>> Jim Fulton wrote:
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>>> Tim Peters wrote:
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>>>> Well, I understand why that works, but it's not part of pprint's
>>>> contract either.
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>>> What contract. :)
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>> The documented behavior, e.g. from '$ pydoc pprint' or the online
>> equivalent, http://python.org/doc/current/lib/module-pprint.html ?
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> The Python documentation is incomplete in lots of places. It can
> hardly be considered a complete contract.

(Pulling numbers out of the air) ... 97% of Zope3 has less
well-specified contracts than the Python standard library.  Relying on
implementation details beyond the documented API is risky, period.  As
Tim notes, there isn't even any guarantee that dictionary keys are
*ordereable*.


Tres.
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