[TIP] cleanUp for unittest

[C. Titus Brown]

On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 06:08:58PM +0100, Michael Foord wrote:
-> There is a feature request for unittest that we add a 'cleanUp' list.
-> 
-> This is a list of functions to call on exit of a test that can be added 
-> to in setUp or during test execution. The difference between this and 
-> tearDown is that if anything is in the cleanUp list they will be called 
-> *even* if setUp fails (which normally means tearDown is skipped).
-> 
-> Is there consensus that adding this to unittest is a good thing? If 
-> there is then I will just do it...
-> 
-> Should it be done before or after calling tearDown? I don't think it 
-> matters so long as it is documented.

Doesn't matter to me, but I'm wondering... why a list of functions?

--titus
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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu