[Python-Dev] Question over splitting unittest into a package (original) (raw)

Martin (gzlist) gzlist at googlemail.com
Thu Dec 31 16:30:12 CET 2009

Thanks for the quick response.

On 30/12/2009, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:

_When I made that change, I didn't know that the unittest "hack" was being used elsewhere outside of unittest, so I felt fine replacing it with another. While I still consider it an implementation detail, I would be ok with exposing an "official" API for this. Perhaps _unittestignoretraceback?

Well, bazaar has had the trick for a couple of years, and googling around now turns up some other projects using it or thinking about it: <http://github.com/gfxmonk/mocktest/commit/b5e94f7ee06ab627cea2c9cf90d0aeb63ee5a698> <http://bitbucket.org/uche/amara/changeset/eeaf69f48271/> <http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/4127>

I get the impression Robert doesn't like it much though, and seemed to have wanted something more targeted in the past as well: <http://bugs.python.org/issue1705520>

Reinstating the old implementation (with the same name) would mean that existing code would keep working with Python 2.7 but maybe a discussion could start about a new, less hacky, way of doing the same thing. May not be worthwhile making life more complicated though, there aren't that many unittest-extending projects.

Martin

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