[TIP] always call teardownX even if setupX fails?

[holger krekel]

Hi Rob, hi Doug,

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:47 -0500, Doug Hellmann wrote:
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> On Jan 23, 2010, at 5:51 AM, Robert Collins wrote:
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>> 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.

thanks for your feedback.  py.test will do that as well with 1.2.1 - with 
the addition that triggering "Skipped" exceptions in a setup function will 
not call teardown.

cheers,
holger