[TIP] cleanUp for unittest

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:08:58 BST, Michael Foord writes:
>Hello all,
>
>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.
>
>Michael Foord
>
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Cleanup should run after tearDown, since then it can clean up after a
failed tearDown, too.  I'm not so happy with cleanup being a list of functions.
What's wrong with overriding it in a subclass, same as tearDown?

puzzled,
Laura