On Apr 28, 2011, at 1:27 PM, Holger Krekel wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> In my opinion assert should be avoided completely anywhere else than >>> in the tests. If this is a wrong statement, please let me know why :) >> >> I would turn that around. The assert statement should not be used in >> unit tests; unit tests should use self.assertXyzzy() always. > > FWIW this is only true for the unittest module/pkg policy for writing and > organising tests. There are other popular test frameworks like nose and pytest > which promote using plain asserts within writing unit tests and also allow to > write tests in functions. And judging from my tutorials and others places > many > people appreciate the ease of using asserts as compared to learning tons > of new methods. YMMV.
I've also observed that people appreciate using asserts with nose.py and py.test. Raymond _______________________________________________ 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
