[Fwd: Re: [Biopython-dev] Bio.CAPS module submission]

[Jonathan Taylor]

True.  I am fine with another name?  how about test_suite() ?

Jon.


Michael Hoffman wrote:
>> I chose suite() because in the pyunit documentation they say its a good
>> idea to include such a callable object (read method) named suite.
> 
> 
> Hmmmm, that is the example name they use, but I don't see where they
> say that it has to be called suite. In fact they use several other
> names for suites:
> 
>        suite1 = module1.TheTestSuite()
>        suite2 = module2.TheTestSuite()
>        alltests = unittest.TestSuite((suite1, suite2))
> 
> My main problem with the name "suite" is that it is what is used in
> the Python grammar and in other Python discussion fora
> (comp.lang.python) to refer to any block of code.
> 
> http://docs.python.org/ref/compound.html#tok-suite