[Python-Dev] Proposed unittest changes (original) (raw)

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Thu Jul 17 06:09:29 CEST 2008


On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:26:45 am Raymond Hettinger wrote:

From: "Ben Finney" <ben+python at benfinney.id.au>

> Right, so I'm putting up a separate PEP just for the renaming. > Should be arriving on this list soon. I would like to work with you or someone else who is interested on an alternative PEP for a separate, simpler test module using the py.test syntax.

I am interested in this suggestion. I didn't know about py.test.

I admit to dissatisfaction with unittest (too Java-ish and heavyweight for my tastes). I would love a test suite midway in weight between doctests and unittest, so I will check it out.

-- Steven



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