[TIP] always call teardownX even if setupX fails?

[Doug Hellmann]

On Jan 23, 2010, at 5:51 AM, Robert Collins wrote:

> On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 00:43 +0100, holger krekel wrote:
>>
>> Doesn't look like a blocker to me at the moment.  What do you think?
>> Any objections or recommendations?  Do you regard consistency a
>> blocker?
>
> Trial and testtools run tearDown unconditionally even though its
> inconsistent with unittest. I'm a big fan of doing that, and encourage
> you to do it in py.test.

+1

Any test with moderately complex external fixtures would benefit from  
this behavior.  We use a subclass of unittest.TestCase that always  
calls tearDown() for all of our tests at Racemi.

Doug