Issue 10220: switch to using string constants rather than integers for inspect.getgeneratorstate() return values and make debugging friendly str() and repr() for generator states a requirement in the test suite
diff --git a/Lib/inspect.py b/Lib/inspect.py
index e410dba..ed10ac5 100644
--- a/Lib/inspect.py
+++ b/Lib/inspect.py
@@ -1130,7 +1130,10 @@
raise AttributeError(attr)
-GEN_CREATED, GEN_RUNNING, GEN_SUSPENDED, GEN_CLOSED = range(4)
+GEN_CREATED = 'GEN_CREATED'
+GEN_RUNNING = 'GEN_RUNNING'
+GEN_SUSPENDED = 'GEN_SUSPENDED'
+GEN_CLOSED = 'GEN_CLOSED'
def getgeneratorstate(generator):
"""Get current state of a generator-iterator.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_inspect.py b/Lib/test/test_inspect.py
index 97c47ac..71f0e8a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_inspect.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_inspect.py
@@ -931,6 +931,14 @@
# Running after the first yield
next(self.generator)
+ def test_easy_debugging(self):
+ # repr() and str() of a generator state should contain the state name
+ names = 'GEN_CREATED GEN_RUNNING GEN_SUSPENDED GEN_CLOSED'.split()
+ for name in names:
+ state = getattr(inspect, name)
+ self.assertIn(name, repr(state))
+ self.assertIn(name, str(state))
+
def test_main():
run_unittest(