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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2018-05-22 10:43:55 -0700
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2018-05-22 10:43:55 -0700
commitca6d7aee91930363e7a1fcc1535d1be1b8debdea (patch)
tree1824b5d032b29d22f4c45c3077cdd67448ebeabf /Lib/test/test_idle.py
parent25fd6cc5b0ad311bb771ae47ae8173417730bb6a (diff)
downloadcpython-git-ca6d7aee91930363e7a1fcc1535d1be1b8debdea.tar.gz
Improve comments in test_idle.py. (GH-7057)
(cherry picked from commit 2a6d5da1d35b4a5342f6347d75298e2bec8194ed) Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/test/test_idle.py')
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_idle.py14
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_idle.py b/Lib/test/test_idle.py
index 31fffd94a0..8bc01deaa3 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_idle.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_idle.py
@@ -1,18 +1,20 @@
import unittest
from test.support import import_module
-# Skip test if _tkinter wasn't built, if idlelib is missing,
-# or if tcl/tk is not the 8.5+ needed for ttk widgets.
-tk = import_module('tkinter') # imports _tkinter
+# Skip test_idle if _tkinter wasn't built, if tkinter is missing,
+# if tcl/tk is not the 8.5+ needed for ttk widgets,
+# or if idlelib is missing (not installed).
+tk = import_module('tkinter') # Also imports _tkinter.
if tk.TkVersion < 8.5:
raise unittest.SkipTest("IDLE requires tk 8.5 or later.")
idlelib = import_module('idlelib')
-# Before test imports, tell IDLE to avoid changing the environment.
+# Before importing and executing more of idlelib,
+# tell IDLE to avoid changing the environment.
idlelib.testing = True
-# unittest.main and test.libregrtest.runtest.runtest_inner
-# call load_tests, when present, to discover tests to run.
+# Unittest.main and test.libregrtest.runtest.runtest_inner
+# call load_tests, when present here, to discover tests to run.
from idlelib.idle_test import load_tests
if __name__ == '__main__':