[TIP] testing the creation of infrastructure

[Joseph Heck]

Just so it's in the archives of the list, the library I was hunting is called proboscis (http://packages.python.org/proboscis/) - an extension to nose that constrains test and allows declaration of test dependencies. 

-joe

On Aug 30, 2011, at 11:11 PM, Joseph Heck <heckj at mac.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
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