Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> writes: > The advantage of setUpClass and setUpModule is that they allow you to > have shared fixtures shared between tests, essential for certain kinds > of testing. […]
Yes, this would be very useful for non-unit tests. > My *hope* is that we provide a general solution, possibly based on all > or part of Test Resources, with an easy mechanism for the setUpClass > and setUpModule but also solves the more general case of sharing > fixtures between tests. +1 for having these in a more general “testing API”, with the ‘unittest’ API a special case that does *not* share fixtures between tests. -- \ “Following fashion and the status quo is easy. Thinking about | `\ your users' lives and creating something practical is much | _o__) harder.” —Ryan Singer, 2008-07-09 | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
