[Python-Dev] Tweaking the stdlib test infrastructure (original) (raw)

Collin Winter collinw at gmail.com
Tue Apr 24 18:36:29 CEST 2007

On 4/24/07, glyph at divmod.com <glyph at divmod.com> wrote:

On 12:39 am, collinw at gmail.com wrote: >Fast and simple: I want all stdlib test cases to stop subclassing >unittest.TestCase and start subclassing testsupport.TestCase.

>So: any objections to making this change? Not an objection so much as a question - if these feature additions are generally interesting (and the ones you mentioned sounded like they are) why not simply add them to unittest.TestCase itself? After all, that is in the stdlib itself already.

Because something like per-test refleak checking is completely useless when testing pure-python code. More generally, because not everything that will be useful for the stdlib's test suite will be useful to every single third-party test suite. It's also an issue of support: I want the freedom to add functionality to the stdlib's test suite without worrying about the impact on third-party unittest code.

Collin Winter

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