On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 1:26 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Thomas Caswell <tcasw...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Going with option 2 is probably the best option so that you can use >>> pytest fixtures and parameterization. >>> >> >> I agree -- those are worth a lot! >> > > Maybe I'm dense, but I don't quite see the difference between 1 and 2. > Test files should never be imported unless tests are run, they're not part > of any public API nor do they currently have __init__.py files. > > Ralf > In practice, that would generally be true, but the nose testing tools were 1, all nose imports were buried in functions that ran during testing. Whether or not that was by intent I don't know. But having an explicit consensus on 2, which seems to be the case here, is helpful because it allows better use of pytest fixtures. <snip> Chuck
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