[Python-Dev] Unittest PEP do's and don'ts (BDFL pronouncement) (original) (raw)

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Thu Jul 17 00:52:41 CEST 2008

Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> writes:

Collecting testcases from the filesystem is a pain. But actually writing tests (including custom TestCases) using the unittest API is fine. I find unittest straightforward and readable, I like it.

I don't understand a lot of the criticism comes in for.

For my part, I wanted the redundancies removed and the PEP 8 conformance fixed as a precondition too any addition to the unittest API.

Without those two (and the BDFL's pronouncement at the head of this thread means they're not an option), I can't see the unittest API getting anything except increasingly hideous and painful to use.

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