[TIP] cleanUp for unittest

Fred Drake fdrake at gmail.com
Fri Apr 3 18:57:57 PDT 2009


On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Douglas Philips <dgou at mac.com> wrote:
> Still no answer to the question: What is the purpose of tearDown once
> this is added?
> When should I put code into tearDown (if at all) once this is available?

Backward compatibility for existing tests is the main reason.

That's the only reason for keeping around a method that's more
difficult to use correctly.


  -Fred

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