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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Guilherme Salgado
<salgado@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Some time ago I had the idea to write a test runner shell which would
> keep the test layers up after every test run, so that re-running a test
> while doing TDD would be a lot faster.

Bjorn has already done something like this.

> For that to work we'd need to
> reload any python modules that were changed before re-running the test,
> though.  Last Friday I was able to get something that seemed to work,
> but yesterday when I tried it against real tests, it failed.
>

Reloading Python modules is a myth. I doubt you'll ever be able to do
this reliably.

jml