[Buildbot-devel] Dynamically updating text displayed in build step status

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:26:55PM -0700, Brian Warner wrote:
> The problem here is that self.describe() is returning a list of strings, but
> it isn't expecting anyone to mutate it. When you do 'text += ["warnings"]',
> you're actually changing the class-wide value, which is why you see multiple
> copies of the same text showing up later. (python expands 'l1 += l2' into
> 'l1.extend(l2)', which modifies l1 in place).

Maybe self.describe() should be returning a tuple, so this mistake
would be impossible to make?

-- Nathaniel

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