[TIP] cleanUp for unittest

Olemis Lang olemis at gmail.com
Fri Apr 3 13:19:39 PDT 2009


On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Olemis Lang <olemis at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
>> holger krekel wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Michael,
>>> On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 19:58 +0100, Michael Foord wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have no idea whether this particular feature is in other xUnit inspired
>>>> frameworks. Irregardless, unittest is a Python testing framework and
>>>> development should be driven by patterns useful to testing Python - and
>>>> whether or not similar patterns are used elsewhere is more-or-less
>>>> irrelevant. For example, you would never implement this feature in this way
>>>> in Junit because Java has no first class functions.
>>>>
>>>
>>> When targetting "testing" in general i'd rather not aim too much for
>>> changing unittest.py.
>>
>> Sure, you don't use it. :-)
>
> Me either ... I love unittest ... I run my tests using unittest ...
> but I write'em using doctests ... that's what dutest is all about ...
> me trying to be myself while writing tests ... ;o)
>
>

Sorry ... I had not finished yet ... I apologize ...

... and even if I had not known doctest ... I still think that
unittest does not need to be changed for this specific reason ...

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Regards,

Olemis.

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