[TIP] testing the creation of infrastructure

[Joseph Heck]

Thanks Mark - 

The first I didn't realize, and that's darned helpful... I'd gotten into the habit of just letting Nose discover my tests and go from there - didn't realize that it preserved order when you handed it a specific file to go chew on.

-joe

On Aug 30, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Mark Sienkiewicz wrote:
> Well, that message sure got mangled on the way out.  Let's try again:
> 
> - It is fairly trivial to use a unittest2 assertion without using the rest of unittest:
> 
> import unittest2
> 
> class dummy_ut2( unittest2.TestCase ) : # not named test_something
>    __test__ = False # just in case
>    def runTest( wtf ) :
>        raise Exception('Should never be called')
> xcmp = dummy_ut2()
> 
> def test_a() :
>    xcmp.assertAlmostEqual( 1.001, 1.002, places=4 )
> 
> IMHO, it would be easy to bury all that in a library if you wanted to.
> 
> 
> 
> Mark S.