[TIP] unittest issues and development

[Michael Foord]

On 10/02/2010 23:22, Fernando Perez wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Michael Foord
> <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>  wrote:
>    
>> Thanks. I've assigned it to me. When I get a chance to look at it properly I
>> will open up a discussion about it.
>>      
> Greatly appreciated.
>
> BTW, do you have any plans/interest in providing in unittest pep-8
> compatible names,
Unfortunately there are a lot of names and we just got rid of a lot of 
duplicates. It was discussed previously, but the conclusion was that we 
couldn't introduce a new set of duplicate names (effectively doubling 
what is already a fairly large API).

> as well as top-level names for the various
> assertions?  Nose.tools does that in a very simple but useful manner
> that makes lightweight (non-class-based) tests really nice to write:
>
> def test_foo():
>    nose.tools.assert_equals(bar, baz, 'nice message)
>    

I've never seen the advantage of this over self.assertEquals (ignoring 
the PEP 8 issue...). :-)

All the best,

Michael
> The amount of code for this in nose.tools is tiny enough that I think
> it would be nice to have it out of the box (and with proper pep8
> names) in the stdlib.  With a trivial decorator like the ones I showed
> you, these functions can even be seen by unittest as proper tests
> without any of the nose discovery machinery.
>
> Something like this would bring more of the light, friendly style of
> nose testing into the realm of the stdlib, with (IMO) minimal overhead
> of code.
>
> The easier it is to write tests, the higher the chances I'll have of
> convincing students to write them :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> f
>    


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