Raymond Hettinger wrote:
From: "Ben Finney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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. That is much simpler to learn and use.
Instead of self.assertIsNot and whatnot, you write:
assert a is not b
No need for tons of word-by-word spellings on things we already
have syntax for. Almost anyone who has used py.test can attest
its syntax is much more natural, easy to learn, easy to both
read and write, and is much lighter weight. I think some variant
of py.test could be done that is compatable with unittest
and the did not have the "magic" present in earlier versions of py.test.
Ah, in my haste I skipped over your comment about "magic", my apologies.
But in the absence of magic how do you propose to provide a meaningful
error message from the failure of:
assert a == b
To wrap it in a function like "assert equals(a, b)" seems to gain little
over unittest.
Michael
I wrote a recipe (somewhat rough and incomplete) that shows how
easily this could be done:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/572194
Raymond
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