to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back to the
__float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath module now
can operate on objects that define a __complex__() method.
(backport)
imports e.g. test_support must do so using an absolute package name
such as "import test.test_support" or "from test import test_support".
This also updates the README in Lib/test, and gets rid of the
duplicate data dirctory in Lib/test/data (replaced by
Lib/email/test/data).
Now Tim and Jack can have at it. :)
and replaces them with a new API verify(). As a result the regression
suite will also perform its tests in optimization mode.
Written by Marc-Andre Lemburg. Copyright assigned to Guido van Rossum.
'verbose' flag ala GvR updated test harness architecture.
Old way:
verbose = 0
if __name__ == '__main__':
verbose = 1
New way:
from test_support import verbose
Some other small readablility and functionality updates.
Georg Brandl
Raymond Hettinger
Barry Warsaw
Fredrik Lundh
Marc-André Lemburg
Guido van Rossum
Roger E. Masse