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. :)
*are* obsolete; three variables and the maketrans() function are not
(yet) obsolete.
Add a compensating warnings.filterwarnings() call to test_strop.py.
Add this to the NEWS.
meaning infinity -- but at least warn about it in the code! I pissed
away a couple hours on this today, and don't wish the same on the next
in line.
Bugfix candidate.
means "replace everything". But the string module, string.replace()
amd test_string.py believe a 0 count means "replace nothing".
"Nothing" wins, strop loses.
Bugfix candidate.
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.