Testing is so far pretty much an afterthought about as_blog HOT 1 OPEN

Six months on, the first sentence of the introductory post is still true. The project has remained largely in discovery mode, so the lack of testing isn't critical because none of the existing code is intended to be of production quality, having been written mostly to find out how to do stuff.

The project environment is changing now, though, because the re-emergence of Python in a Nutshell mean Alex and I are no longer writing blog articles for for foreseeable future. Since I believe this software shows great promise I am continuing it at whatever pace PiaN and daily work activities (plus, inevitably, the rest of life) allow.

However the document creation abilities of Docs has become of interest, and I am learning how to use the Python API for this purpose. Since everyone who works on the system will need to understand the same stuff it seems sensible to encapsulate the necessary learning as tests, thereby making them useful as learning materials too.

Since file modifications are performed using a dictionary structure, many tests can be performed by creating the dictionaries dynamically.

from as_blog.