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[–]mcdonc 2 points3 points


AFAICT, the reddit code (available on github) has no unit tests. They may be somewhere else and I'm missing them, or maybe there's some exhaustive functional test suite laying around. But any project that doesn't have any tests is going to not work real well in real life, especially as things need to change, regardless of platform or language.

Both Python and Pylons themselves have reasonable test suites which allow those systems' authors to make sure they continue to work over time. But that doesn't prevent people from building untested, questionable code on top of them.