Re: [IMP-dev] [IMP-commits] r1054 - trunk/kernel/pyext/IMP

[Daniel Russel <>]

On Dec 19, 2008, at 4:46 PM, Ben Webb <> wrote:

> Daniel Russel wrote:
> > Also, what happened to posting changes to how things work on imp- 
> > dev for
> > comment?
>
> Unless I am missing something, this is not changing how things work;
> tests have always read any input files from the current working
> directory. Personally, I would rather tests did not read *any* input
> files (or if they really needed a file in a specific format, it  
> could be
> embedded in the Python script itself, and read via StringIO or dumped
> out to a temporary file via tempfile and then read back in).
While I think that would be nice in theory to not read inputs, I think  
sticking a whole pdb in a .py would obscure the test code.

I think defining the path to imp root path in imppy and using paths  
relative to that in the tests might be an improvement since we are  
pretty much stuck using imppy for the time being and that would make  
it so it doesn't matter what your current directory is.