[TIP] cleanUp for unittest

[Doug Hellmann]

On Apr 3, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Michael Foord wrote:

> holger krekel wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 18:16 +0100, Michael Foord wrote:
>>
>> hum, doesn't something like
>>
>>    def setUp(self):
>>        try:
>>            ...
>>        finally:
>>            self.tearDown()
>>
>> express well enough what the poster wants to do?
>> Or am i missing something?
>>
>>
>
> It does but is an unacceptable solution because it changes the  
> semantics
> of the current behavior.

Funny, I thought that was a bug and wrote a subclass that "fixed" the  
behavior for all of our tests.  We use a lot of external fixtures in  
our automated tests, so the rule is that all tear-down code needs to  
be robust in case the thing being cleaned up does not exist, etc.

I also use the pattern of keeping a list of functions for the cleanup,  
so +1 on adding that.

Doug