[IPython-user] Interactive testing with ipython

[Alexander Schmolck]

"Fernando Perez" <fperez.net@gmail.com> writes:

> On 5/10/07, Alexander Schmolck <a.schmolck@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> The code appears to work, but isn't properly tested or release quality right
>> now (it's reasonably short, though, < 200LOC) -- but your post got me thinking
>> that it might be nice to bundle such functionality as a magic function for
>> ipython (e.g.``runtests test_foo.py``?). I think for long running and
>> complicated test suites (esp. for numerical stuff where failures can profit
>> from some more fancy inspection then prints) this could be real development
>> time saver. Would there be any interest in adapting this for
>> ipython-inclusion?
>
> Send it in!  Put it up on the Cookbook with the code as an attachment
> so everyone can start using it:
>
> http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/Cookbook
>
> We can then polish it and ship it included in the future, but that way
> we all get the toys right away :)
>
> I'd LOVE to use this stuff already.
>

Great! I'll do so at the next best opportunity -- I'll really need to catch
some sleep now and I'll be hard pressed to fit in some coding in the next few
days, but I'll CC'ed: this to brian hawthorne, who co-authored the code in
question, so maybe he can give make sure it actually does vaguely work as I
claimed it would :)

cheers

alex