Re: porting unittest.py to Prothon.

Serge Orlov wrote:

> I'm trying to port unittest.py to Prothon, here are my
> impressions:
>
> 1. I realized that I don't know how to translate some
> Python builtins. I mean either I haven't gained the knowledge
> or the functionality is lacking. I decided to write a full
> translation quick reference. See below.

Thanks.  This will be very useful.

> 2. Too many small changes during porting will be hard to
> debug. It's better to make syntax changes first, import
> Python functionality, run test suite and then moving in
> small steps remove Python functionality. So I started
> module pyCompat. Currently it is not usable because of
> bug 37 in the interpreter (Mark, I sent you a private
> message about that, have you got it?). It is also untested,
> because testing depends on unittest.pr, which does't exist :)

I missed your private message.  I have been missing private messages because
I think they are copies of mailing list messages.  I will find it.

> 3. There are minor incompatibilities between Prothon
> and Python builtin objects, unless they are *all*
> found and (documented or fixed) porting is a pain.
>
> 4. What is the status of "from Module import xxx"?

It used to work.  Did you try it?