[TIP] cleanUp for unittest

[Victoria G. Laidler]

Michael Foord wrote:
>
> There is no need for the lambdas in the above example.
>
>> and I'm dithering on whether I think it ought to be a list, as 
>> proposed, or something else.
>>
>> My usual case for cleanup behavior is file deletion, with different 
>> files to be deleted depending on how far I got. Would this work?
>>
>> self.cleanUp.append(os.unlink(somefile))
>
> You do need a lambda (or function) to do this however. :-)
>
> self.cleanUp.append(lambda: os.unlink(somefile))
OK... what is the difference between the two? Just that the method takes 
an argument? I'm still lambda-befuzzled, here.

thanks,
Vicki