- Add tests for the module-level load() and dump() functions.
- Add tests for cPickle's internal data structures, stressing workloads
with many gets/puts.
- Add tests for the Pickler and Unpickler classes, in particular the
memo attribute.
- test_xpickle is extended to test backwards compatibility with Python
2.4, 2.5 and 2.6 by round-tripping pickled objects through a worker
process. This is guarded with a regrtest -u xpickle resource.
and test_support.run_classtests() into run_unittest()
and use it wherever possible.
Also don't use "from test.test_support import ...", but
"from test import test_support" in a few spots.
From SF patch #662807.
and loading them via the other, except for the special cases of this
Guido added to test_datetime.py for datetime module objects. The new
test_xpickle.py tries all of pickletester's AbstractPickleTests in
both x-module ways.
Collin Winter
Christian Heimes
Walter Dörwald
Tim Peters