[Python-Dev] unittest bug (original) (raw)

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Wed Aug 3 23:58:31 CEST 2011

Michael Foord wrote:

On 3 Aug 2011, at 21:36, Ethan Furman wrote:

My apologies for posting here first, but I'm not yet confident enough in my bug searching fu, and duplicates are a pain.

Here's the issue: from unittest import * That's the bug right there. Just import TestCase and main and everything should work fine. Using "import *" is not recommended except at the interactive interpreter and it doesn't play well with unittest.main which does magic introspection to find tests to run.

If from xxx import * is not supported, why provide all? At the very least the lack of a warning is a documentation bug.

Ethan

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