Shaking off the cobwebs, getting back into it

I've got some programming ideas, inspired by previous efforts and the most recent lessons learned from Google Wave, I'm going to start a python project to handle translating source code (specifically pascal code) bidirectionally to object code and symbol tables.

My main programming exerience is in Borland's Delphi 5, which suceeded a number of years using Turbo Pascal 7.0 under DOS. So, these new languages like Python, etc al. are a bit odd to me, but I really like the power of the built in dictionaries, tuples, etc.

I'm using an old build of Active State python (2.5.1) which I'll be updating. I managed to write a few modules with very trivial amounts of code, cribbing heavily from "Dive into Python" by Mark Pilgrim.

Here it is... ALL of it...

Translate01.py:

"""Translates internal representation to and from xhtml"""

#define Exceptions

class HtmlError(Exception): pass

class invalidHtmlError(HtmlError): pass

def toHtml(x):

"""convert x to html string"""

return x

def fromHtml(x):

"""convert html string to internal representation"""

return x

Translate01_test.py:

"""Unit test for translate01.py"""

import translate01

import unittest

class KnownValues(unittest.TestCase):

knownValues = ( ( '', ''),

( 'x','x'))

def testToHtmlKnownValues(self):

"""ToHtml should give known results with known input"""

for s1,s2 in self.knownValues:

result = translate01.toHtml(s1)

self.assertEqual(s2,result)

def testFromHtmlKnownValues(self):

"""FromHtml should give known results with known input"""

for s1,s2 in self.knownValues:

result = translate01.fromHtml(s2)

self.assertEqual(s1,result)

if __name__ == "__main__":

unittest.main()

It actually runs.... and tests ok... (because it's trivial right now)

PythonWin 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 1 2007, 17:47:05) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32.

Portions Copyright 1994-2006 Mark Hammond - see 'Help/About PythonWin' for further copyright information.

>>> ..

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Ran 2 tests in 0.000s

OK

So.... I'm on a journey... and I just took the very first step... a thousand miles to go. ;-)