Message 85404 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

Patch attached.

No docs, if it is agreed I can apply I'll write docs.

After a long discussion we arrived at some semblance of consensus on the Testing In Python mailing list that this was a good thing (tm).

Only one -1 (thought that cleanUp should be a method) and Holger Krekel was only +0 because he thinks changes in unittest should be conservative (but he isn't actually using it).

Many others were +1 - Fred Drake, Titus Brown, Laura Creighton, Robert Collins, Jonathan Lange, Kumar McMillan and others.

It provides a clean and simple pattern for the cleaning up of resources

• avoiding the need for nested try finallys and the manual tracking of resources. It can also avoid the need for duplication of cleanup code.